Table of Contents

Volume 36, Number 2

June 2004

MDMA/Ecstasy Use Among Young People in Ohio: Perceived Risk and Barriers to Intervention — Robert G. Carlson, Ph.D.; Russel S. Falck, M.A.; Jill A. McCaughan, Ph.D. & Harvey A. Siegal, Ph.D.

Combating Substance Abuse with Ibogaine: Pre- and Posttreatment Recommendations and an Example of Successive Model Fitting Analyses — James B. Hittner, Ph.D. & Susan B. Quello, B.S.

Measuring Inhalant Abuse Among Homeless Youth in Southern Brazil — Flavia Valladγo Thiesen, M.Sc. & Helena Maria Tannhauser Barros, M.D., Ph.D.

The Effect of 12-Step-Based Fellowship Participation on Abstinence Among Dually Diagnosed Persons: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study — Alexandre B. Laudet, Ph.D.; Stephen Magura, Ph.D., C.S.W.; Charles M. Cleland, Ph.D.; Howard S. Vogel, M.S.W.; Edward L. Knight, Ph.D. & Andrew Rosenblum, Ph.D. 

Substance Use and Misuse: Are Bisexual Women at Greater Risk? —Sean Esteban McCabe, Ph.D., M.S.W.; Tonda L. Hughes, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. & Carol J. Boyd, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.

Leaving Methadone Maintenance Treatment: The Role of Personality Traits and Psychic Status  — Marlene Stenbacka, Ph.D.; Lena Brandt, B.A. & Loise Lettholm, B.Sc.

Diagnostic and Symptomatological Features in Chronic Psychotic Patients According to Cannabis Use Status — Icro Maremmani, M.D.; Antonio Lazzeri, M.D.; Matteo Pacini, M.D.; Mercedes Lovrecic, M.D.; Gian Franco Placidi, M.D. & Giulio Perugi, M.D.

The Importance of Need for Cognition and Educational Experience in Enhanced and Standard Substance Abuse Treatment — Michael Czuchry, Ph.D. & Donald F. Dansereau, Ph.D.

Ecstasy: Commodity or Disease? — Michael Agar, Ph.D. & Heather Schacht Reisinger, M.A.A.

Therapeutic Communities: A Therapeutic Bridge — Robert Vaughn Frye, M.S.

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Effects of a High-Dose, Fast Tapering Buprenorphine Detoxification Program on Symptom Relief and Treatment Retention — Tom Palmstierna, M.D., Ph.D.

Probation Officers’ Beliefs About the Effectiveness of Alcohol Treatment — Douglas L. Polcin, Ed.D.

Recoverable Hearing Loss with Amphetamines and Other Drugs — Nayyer Iqbal, M.B.B.S., M.R.C.Psych.

BOOK REVIEW

Nazis on Speed: Drogen im 3. Reich  — Reviewed by Ralph Metzner, Ph.D.

INTERNATIONAL ADDICTIONS INFOLINE — Richard B. Seymour, M.A; David E. Smith, M.D. & Terry Chambers, B.A.

COVER ART — Morning After, by Norb Lyle