Volume 32, Number 3

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Preface: Perspectives from the Conference, “Common Ground, Common Goals, Common Language: Bringing Substance Abuse Practice and Research Together”
Suzanne Spear, Richard A. Rawson

Bridging the Gap between Substance Abuse Practice and Research: The National Treatment Plan Initiative
H. Westley Clark

Connecting Substance Abuse Treatment and Research: “Let’s Make a Deal”
Richard A. Rawson, Cheryl Branch

Integrating Cultural Variables into Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment with Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Felipe Gonzalez Castro, Eduardo Hernandez Alarcon

Meeting the Treatment Needs of Multiply Diagnosed Consumers
Lisa Steele, Elke Rechberger

Deconstructing the Concept of “Special Populations”
Angela Hegamin, Gayl Anglin, Mark Casanova

Making Collaboration Work: Key Components of Practice/Research Partnerships
Cathy Reback, Al Cohen, Thomas Freese, Steve Shoptaw

Value and Usefulness of a Collaborative Information Sharing Forum: Findings from the “Common Ground” Conference Evaluation
Natasha De Veauuse Brown

Los Angeles County Evaluation System (LACES): Bringing Accountability to Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment through a Collaboration between Providers, Payers, and Researchers
Desiree Crevecoeur, Richard A. Rawson

Linking Researchers and Practitioners in the Substance Abuse Field: Perspectives of Two “Bridgers”
Suzanne E. Spear, Richard A. Rawson

Ketamine Injection among High Risk Youth: Preliminary Findings from New York City
Stephen E. Lankenau, Michael C. Clatts

CADS: Two Short Screeners for Cocaine and Heroin Dependence among Arrestees
Eric D. Wish, Kenneth R. Petronis, George S. Yacoubian, Jr.

Early Substance Use and School Achievement: An Examination of Latino, White, and African American Youth
Cynthia Perez McCluskey, Marvin D. Krohn , Alan J. Lizotte, Monica L. Rodriguez

Family Relationships and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: Results from a National Longitudinal Survey
Todd Q. Miller, Robert J. Volk

A Glass Half Full? Harm Reduction among Pregnant Women Who Use Cocaine
Jeanne Flavin

Predictors of Positive Outcomes for Out-of-treatment Opiate Injectors Recruited into Methadone Maintenance through Street Outreach
Karen Fortuin Corsi, Carol F. Kwiatkowski, Robert E. Booth