Economic Evaluation of Relapse Prevention for Substance Users: Treatment Settings and Health Care Policy

Abstract

Evaluating the prevention, intervention, and treatment programme is critical to understanding the decision-making behaviour of substance abusers. The study interweaves behavioural health economics with the extended PRECEDE–PROCEED Model and examines the effectiveness of treatment settings for substance users in New Jersey Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment (13,775 samples). The study also identifies the factors that are associated with substance users’ recurrence to the treatment centre. The results concluded that educational attainment, counselling services from health care providers, mental agency services, and detoxification treatments have a significant impact on preventing relapse behaviour.

Citation

Yamada, T., Chen, C.-C. and Yamada, T. (2005), "Economic Evaluation of Relapse Prevention for Substance Users: Treatment Settings and Health Care Policy", Lindgren, B. and Grossman, M. (Ed.) Substance Use: Individual Behaviour, Social Interactions, Markets and Politics (Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Vol. 16), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 431-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0731-2199(05)16020-8