Computer-based typing and keypad skills training outcomes of unemployed injection drug users in a therapeutic workplace

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 39, Issue 13-14, 2004, Pages 2325-2353

  Dillon, Erin M ^a,b,c   Wong, Conrad J ^a,d   Sylvest, Christine E ^a,c,e   Crone Todd, Darlene E ^a,f,g   Silverman, Kenneth ^a,h  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^g University of Manitoba ^*

^h UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment; Keyboarding; Reinforcement; Substance use; Vocational rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MISUSE; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 19744373748     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JA-200034620     Document Type: Article

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