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Alcohol Treatment Outcome Evaluation: Contributions from Behavioral Research

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Few would argue with the statement that alcohol treatment outcome evaluation studies have been replete with methodological problems. Several reviews, spanning thirty-five years, have found serious deficiencies in nearly all aspects of treatment evaluation studies (Crawford and Chalupsky, 1977, Hill and Blane, 1967; Miller, Pokorny, Valles and Cleveland, 1970; Sobell, 1978; Voegtlin and Lemere, 1942). These reviews, and the literature upon which they are based, demonstrate that the execution of good alcohol treatment outcome studies is difficult. Recently, however, well-designed alcohol treatment outcome studies have started to appear in the literature. Reasons why such evaluation studies have become more frequent and suggestions for performing better treatment outcome evaluation studies will be enumerated later in this paper.

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Sobell, L.C. (1978). Alcohol Treatment Outcome Evaluation: Contributions from Behavioral Research. In: Nathan, P.E., Marlatt, G.A., Løberg, T. (eds) Alcoholism. NATO Conference Series, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2874-2_10

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