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Client matching: a severity-treatment intensity paradigm.

George De Leon1, Gerald Melnick, Charles M Cleland

  • 1Center for Therapeutic Community Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., 71 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. deleon@ndri.org

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|October 30, 2008
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Matching clients to addiction treatment based on disorder severity improves outcomes. Undertreated individuals showed less improvement, supporting the severity-intensity paradigm for effective drug abuse treatment placement.

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Area of Science:

  • Addiction research
  • Treatment matching
  • Public health

Background:

  • Client matching and placement protocols have yielded inconsistent results in addiction treatment research.
  • A consistent finding suggests a severity-intensity paradigm for successful treatment placement.
  • This paradigm defines success as the minimum treatment intensity needed for the disorder's severity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide empirical support for the validity of the severity-intensity paradigm in addiction treatment.
  • To analyze data from the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies (DATOS) to validate this paradigm.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a "passive match" approach with the Client Matching Protocol decision algorithm.
  • Recommended clients for either long-term residential or outpatient drug-free treatment based on the algorithm.
  • Analyzed one-year outcomes for clients in different treatment matching conditions.

Main Results:

  • Clients matched to long-term residential treatment demonstrated superior outcomes across all variables compared to undertreated clients in outpatient settings.
  • Undertreated clients exhibited less improvement than both matched and overtreated clients.
  • Findings support the severity-intensity paradigm, indicating undertreatment leads to poorer outcomes.

Conclusions:

  • The severity-intensity paradigm is a valid approach for optimizing drug abuse treatment placement.
  • Matching treatment intensity to client disorder severity is crucial for improving treatment outcomes.
  • Undertreatment in addiction services is associated with significantly poorer patient improvement.