What defines a clinically meaningful outcome in the treatment of substance use disorders: reductions in direct consequences of drug use or improvement in overall functioning?

Developing a scale of domains of negative consequences of chronic heroin use

(2018) Tabitha E.H. Moses et al.   ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

Reduced Drinking in Alcohol Dependence Treatment, What Is the Evidence?

(2017) Karl Mann et al.   EUROPEAN ADDICTION RESEARCH

Governmental standard drink definitions and low-risk alcohol consumption guidelines in 37 countries

(2016) Agnieszka Kalinowski et al.   ADDICTION

Clinical Validation of Reduced Alcohol Consumption After Treatment for Alcohol Dependence Using the World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels

(2016) Katie Witkiewitz et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Measures of outcome for stimulant trials: ACTTION recommendations and research agenda

(2016) Brian D. Kiluk et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Cocaine Abstinence and Reduced Use Associated With Lowered Marker of Endothelial Dysfunction in African Americans

(2015) Hong Lai et al.   Journal of Addiction Medicine

Reliability and Validity of the Alcohol Short Index of Problems and a Newly Constructed Drug Short Index of Problems

(2015) Arthur I. Alterman et al.   Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Truth or consequences in the diagnosis of substance use disorders

(2014) Christopher S. Martin et al.   ADDICTION

Toward empirical identification of a clinically meaningful indicator of treatment outcome: Features of candidate indicators and evaluation of sensitivity to treatment effects and relationship to one year follow up cocaine use outcomes

(2014) Kathleen M. Carroll et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Reanalysis of Methamphetamine Dependence Treatment Trial

(2012) Celia Winchell et al.   CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics

New Medications for Substance Use Disorders: Challenges and Opportunities

(2011) Nora D Volkow et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Percentage of Subjects With No Heavy Drinking Days: Evaluation as an Efficacy Endpoint for AlcoholClinical Trials

(2010) Daniel Falk et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Longitudinal changes in drug use severity and physical health-related quality of life among untreated stimulant users

(2009) Tyrone F. Borders et al.   ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

Pharmacotherapy of Addictive Disorders

(2009) Stephen Ross et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

A Meta-Analytic Review of Psychosocial Interventions for Substance Use Disorders

(2008) Lissa Dutra et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY