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Early treatment time course of depressive symptoms in opiate addicts
E C Strain1, M L Stitzer, G E Bigelow
1Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
|April 1, 1991
Abstract:
Self-reported depressive symptoms of opiate addicts were assessed at admission to a methadone treatment program and weekly during the first 4 treatment weeks using the Beck Depression Inventory. A significant decline in scores was found to occur with the first follow-up evaluation done 7 days after admission, with scores remaining stable over subsequent weeks. The study suggests that a more accurate assessment of psychiatric symptoms may be obtained by waiting 1 to 2 weeks after treatment entry as compared with admission assessments.