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Comments on Cocaine Treatment Outcome Research

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1999;56:516-518.

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WHEN cocaine abuse in the United States reached epidemic proportions in the early 1980s, the scientific and clinical communities were unprepared.^1-2 Understanding of the basic pharmacology underlying cocaine's abuse liability was limited, and information on effective clinical management of cocaine-dependent patients was virtually nonexistent. This has changed dramatically owing to an explosion of scientific activity, the scope of which may be unprecedented in the field of drug-abuse research.³ Substantial advances in basic and clinical science have been made in understanding cocaine abuse,^4-5 and additional promising research findings appear in this issue of the ARCHIVES. The report by Simpson et al⁶ provides an impressive evaluation of treatment outcomes among a relatively large sample of cocaine-dependent patients treated in community clinics as part of the national Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS).

Of particular significance is that the report by Simpson et al⁶ confirms in everyday community clinics the striking pretreatment to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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