Establishing and maintaining job skills and professional behaviors in chronically unemployed drug abusers

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1127-1140

  Wong, Conrad J ^a   Silverman, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic unemployment; Contingency management interventions; Job skills; Therapeutic workplace

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SKILL; TRAINING; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34547595420     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10826080701407952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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