Includes bibliographical references.

Evidence-based practice in the area of substance abuse / Katherine van Wormer and Bruce A. Thyer -- Evidence-based practice and policy: choices ahead / Eileen Gambrill -- Assessment of youthful problem drinkers: validating the drinking context scale (DCS-9) with freshman first offenders / Thomas O'Hare and Margaret V. Sherrer -- Validating the alcohol use disorders identification test with persons who have a serious mental illness / Thomas O'Hare ... [et al.] -- The effects of PTSD on treatment adherence, drug relapse, and criminal recidivism in a sample of incarcerated men and women / Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak -- A gender-specific pathway -- to serious, violent, and chronic offending? Exploring Howell's risk factors for serious delinquency / Pernilla Johansson and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard -- Parent-centered intervention: a practical approach for preventing drug abuse in Hispanic adolescents / Maria I. Tapia ... [et al.] -- Women and alcohol-use disorders: a review of important knowledge and its implications for social work practitioners / Brad R. Karoll -- Effects of coordinated services for drug-abusing women who are victims of intimate partner violence / Larry Bennett and Patricia O'Brien -- The life course perspective on drug use: a conceptual framework for understanding drug use trajectories / ih-Ing Hser, Douglas Longshore, and M. Douglas Anglin -- Motivational interviewing to affect behavioral change in older adults / Sherry M. Cummings, R. Lyle Cooper, and Kim McClure Cassie -- Treatment approaches for drug addiction / National Institute on Drug Abuse -- Methamphetamine abuse in the United States: contextual, psychological, and sociological considerations / Michael T. Shrem and Perry N. Halkitis -- Housing first services for people who are homeless with co-occurring serious mental illness and substance abuse / Deborah K. Padgett, Leyla Gulcur, and Sam Tsemberis -- Harm reduction: a model for social work practice with adolescents / Katherine van Wormer -- Secondary prevention services for clients who are low risk in drug court: a conceptual model / Davis S. DeMatteo, Douglas B. Marlowe, and David S. Festiner -- The way forward: from research to practice / Katherine van Wormer and Bruce A. Thyer.