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The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of a variety of psychoactive substances in the developed countries, and a predictable increase in the need for treatment services directed towards this problem. When presenting to treatment, most drug users report recent use of a wide variety of psychoactive substances (Farley, Santo, & Speck, 1979; Sadava, 1984; Wilkinson & Martin, 1983). Nonetheless, there is scant literature on the effectiveness of treatments for multiple substance abuse, also referred to as polydrug abuse (Sobell, Sobell, Ersner-Hirshfield, & Nirenberg, 1982).
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Wilkinson, D.A., Lebreton, S. (1986). Early Indications of Treatment Outcome in Multiple Drug Users. In: Miller, W.R., Heather, N. (eds) Treating Addictive Behaviors. Applied Clinical Psychology, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2191-0_11
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