Anxiety sensitivity: A unique predictor of dropout among inner-city heroin and crack/cocaine users in residential substance use treatment

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 811-818

  Lejuez, C W ^a   Zvolensky, Michael J ^b   Daughters, Stacey B ^a   Bornovalova, Marina A ^a   Paulson, Autumn ^a   Tull, Matthew T ^a   Ettinger, Kenneth ^a   Otto, Michael W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Crack cocaine; Drug treatment; Heroin; Treatment completion

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44349121107     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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