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Rehabilitation Centers for Substance Abusers

The proposed study will compare and contrast public and private rehabilitation centers in terms of demographic differences in patients and treatment success rates observed for repetitive substance abuse patients. In this regard, it is important to note that the psychological/psychiatric notion of what constitutes substance abuse/addiction has changed over the years (Acker, 1991). In contemporary times, substance abuse is classified as a psychological disorder in which a person makes an unhealthy use of one or more substances such as drugs and/or alcohol (Abandinsky, 1989).

One intervention for treating substance abuse is the rehabilitation center consisting of residential placement in which residents receive a wide variety of psychosocial, medical, and even educational services aimed at remediating the substance abuse behavior (Abandinsky, 1989). Studies of both public rehabilitation centers (e.g. Knap, 1991; Mellon, 1983; Petry & Kennedy, 1992) and private rehabilitation centers (e.g. Hawkins, 1986; King & Straus, 1981; Mathisen & Meyers, 1984) have been conducted.

However, of the literally hundreds of studies that have been conducted in the last decade, no studies have specifically compared the treatment effectiveness of public and private rehabilitation centers in treating cases of repetitive substance abuse (cases where those receiving treatment have received treatment for substance abuse at least once before). The research problem of this study is to conduct this comparison.

The purpose of this study is to compare public and private rehabilitation centers in terms of their success rates in treating cases of repetitive substance abuse. A search of several databases (e.g. ERIC, PsychLit) yielded hundreds of studies of municipal and private rehabilitation centers; however, none of these studies were comparative. Thus, the undertaken study will serve to fill a gap in the existing literature.

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