The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA

Abstract #74026

Henrick Harwood, Deepti Malhotra, MPH, and Christel Villarivera, MS. The Lewin Group, Inc, 3130 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 800, Falls Church, VA 22042, 703-269-5635, hjharwood@lewin.com

The Center on Substance Abuse Treatment has funded 10 adolescent programs across the nation to perform rigorous assessments of their outcomes as well as costs and benefits. The providers were selected for the study based on competitive applications, and they have each developed detailed manuals describing their respective treatment approaches which should enable other sites to implement/replicate their treatment models. The evaluation has acquired some of the most detailed cost data ever collected for adolescent substance abuse treatment, and the outcome study has achieved very high rates of client follow-up using the GAIN standardized data collection instrument. This presentation will give the first results from the cost effectiveness and cost analysis, describing the expenses of different levels/modalities of care in detail, and examining the cost per successful client outcome using several important alternative outcome measures.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, the participant will be able to (
• describe the costs of the different modalities evaluated; and (
• describe the cost per successful outcome for different outcomes and treatment models.

Keywords: Substance Abuse Treatment, Adolescents

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.