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Gender Differences in Seven-Year Alcohol and Drug Treatment Outcomes among Older Adults

  1. Derek D. Satre PhD1,2,*,
  2. Frederic C. Blow PhD3,
  3. Felicia W. Chi MPH2,
  4. Constance Weisner DrPH, LCSW1,2

Article first published online: 19 APR 2010

DOI: 10.1080/10550490701375673

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The American Journal on Addictions

The American Journal on Addictions

Volume 16, Issue 3, pages 216–221, May-June 2007

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Satre, D. D., Blow, F. C., Chi, F. W. and Weisner, C. (2007), Gender Differences in Seven-Year Alcohol and Drug Treatment Outcomes among Older Adults. The American Journal on Addictions, 16: 216–221. doi: 10.1080/10550490701375673

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California

  2. 2

    Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region, Oakland, California

  3. 3

    Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center, Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

*Address correspondence to Dr. Satre, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0984, San Francisco, CA 94143. E-mail: dereks@lppi.ucsf.edu

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Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 19 APR 2010
  2. Article first published online: 19 APR 2010
  3. Received 17 July 2006 Revised August 25, 2006; accepted September 21, 2006

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This study examined participants at seven-year follow-up to assess long-term outcomes of older women (n = 25) and men (n = 59) ages 55 and over in an outpatient addiction program. It measured demographic characteristics, alcohol and drug use, psychiatric symptoms, Addiction Severity Index, treatment length, and outcomes. At seven years, 76.0% of women reported abstinence in the prior 30 days versus 54.2% of men, p = .05. Logistic regression analysis found that longer treatment stay predicted abstinence. Findings indicate that older women have better long-term addiction outcome than older men, but treatment length is more significant than gender in predicting outcome.

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