Risk characteristics associated with chronic unemployment in methadone clients.
cross_sectional · Level IV
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Abstract
Relatively few methadone programs emphasize vocational skills training in their service delivery protocols. As a result, this study was conducted to determine the contribution of background demographic, vocational and clinical characteristics in differentiating chronically unemployed methadone clients from those regularly or intermittently employed over a 3-year period of time. Three-hundred eighty heroin addicts, from five urban methadone treatment programs, participated in the study. Using the multiple logistic regression approach, nine variables were found to be significantly related to unemployment risk.
Medical subject headings
- Heroin Dependence
- Methadone
- Rehabilitation, Vocational
- Unemployment