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Designing an agency-based drug problems needs assessment

Designing an agency-based drug problems needs assessment Contemporary Drug Problems 22IWinter 1995 Designing an agency-based drug problems needs assessment BY DORIE KLEIN, ELAINE ZAHND, AND SUE HOLTBY Dorie Klein, Elaine Zahnd and Sue Holtby are senior researchers at the Western Consortium for Public Health (2001 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94704). Dr. Klein is a criminologist who has published on women and criminal justice and on alcohol and drug policy. Dr. Zahnd is a sociologist whose research has focused on women's health and well-being and substance use. Ms. Holtby's current public health research includes alcohol and drug problem prevalence. Researchers studying drug problems often confront a gap in information between that generated by large-scale surveys on the one hand, and by clinical or institutional studies and ethnographies on the other. Surveys of general populations paint a broad-brush picture of use patterns or problems and some related factors, but they can rarely provide additional information on those with the heaviest use or the most severe problems except at very great expense, because their purpose is to quantify prevalence by canvassing large numbers of subjects. Clinical studies or studies of institutionalized indi- © 1995 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc. 708 DRUG PROBLEMS NEEDS ASSESSMENT viduals focus on groups already http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Drug Problems SAGE

Designing an agency-based drug problems needs assessment

Klein, Dorie; Zahnd, Elaine; Holtby, Sue
Contemporary Drug Problems , Volume 22 (4): 27 – Dec 1, 1995
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Contemporary Drug Problems 22IWinter 1995 Designing an agency-based drug problems needs assessment BY DORIE KLEIN, ELAINE ZAHND, AND SUE HOLTBY Dorie Klein, Elaine Zahnd and Sue Holtby are senior researchers at the Western Consortium for Public Health (2001 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94704). Dr. Klein is a criminologist who has published on women and criminal justice and on alcohol and drug policy. Dr. Zahnd is a sociologist whose research has focused on women's health and well-being and substance use. Ms. Holtby's current public health research includes alcohol and drug problem prevalence. Researchers studying drug problems often confront a gap in information between that generated by large-scale surveys on the one hand, and by clinical or institutional studies and ethnographies on the other. Surveys of general populations paint a broad-brush picture of use patterns or problems and some related factors, but they can rarely provide additional information on those with the heaviest use or the most severe problems except at very great expense, because their purpose is to quantify prevalence by canvassing large numbers of subjects. Clinical studies or studies of institutionalized indi- © 1995 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc. 708 DRUG PROBLEMS NEEDS ASSESSMENT viduals focus on groups already

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