Reductions in Symptomatology from Admission to Discharge at a Residential Treatment Center for Substance Use Disorders: A Replication Study

Author Info

Colin A. Ross Melissa Caldwell Engle John Edmonson Alexis Garcia

Corresponding Author

Colin A. Ross
The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, Texas, USA

A B S T R A C T

A replication study of treatment outcomes for patients at a residential treatment center for substance use disorders was conducted. A set of measures was completed on admission and discharge by 200 patients admitted to a residential treatment center for substance use disorders. Participants in the replication sample did not differ from those in the initial sample of 100 on age, gender or average length of stay, or on baseline scores on the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire or the Drug Abuse Screening Test. Nor did they differ on admission or discharge scores on the Dissociative Experiences Scale, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory or the PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version. The results show that the marked symptom reductions seen in the initial study can be replicated. This is an important step in ongoing research on treatment outcomes for substance use disorders. The treatment provided was multimodal and trauma-informed and incorporated Twelve Step and other approaches.

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 09, Oct 2020
Accepted: Mon 19, Oct 2020
Published: Fri 23, Oct 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Colin A. Ross. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.PDR.2020.03.01