Acknowledgments
During the Substance Abuse Coverage Study, many individuals shared ideas and information with the study committee. The most important contributions in this respect were of two sorts: participation in two symposia organized by the committee in Washington, D.C., on June 1, 1988, and in Irvine, California, on October 4, 1988, and hosting of site visits by committee members and staff in six states during the intervening months.
The symposia gave the committee an opportunity to hear from and question closely a selection of knowledgeable individuals involved with drug treatment programs in a variety of roles such as clinical services, research, administration, third-party funding, and referral. These events gave the committee opportunities to hear not only individual presentations but also the participants' counterpoints to each other's and to the committee's tentative points of view. These exchanges breathed life into the committee's images of the treatment system, and committee members are grateful to all of the symposium participants for taking part in these important formative events.
Present at the Washington symposium were the following:
M. Douglas Anglin, Drug Abuse Research Group, University of California, Los Angeles
Patricia Armocida, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association, Chicago, Illinois
John C. Ball, Addiction Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Lee Grutchfield, Human Resource Development, Continental Airlines, Houston, Texas
Norman Hoffmann, Chemical Addiction/Abuse Treatment Outcome Registry, The Ramsey Clinic, St. Paul, Minnesota
Don Jones, Consulting and Continuing Education Department, Hazelden Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jill Klobucar, Human Affairs International, Arlington, Virginia
Richard J. Russo, New Jersey State Department of Health, Trenton
Steven Sharfstein, Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Bruce Vander Els, Milliman and Robertson, Radnor, Pennsylvania
Participants in the Irvine symposium were:
M. Douglas Anglin, Drug Abuse Research Group, University of California, Los Angeles
Gary Atkins, Employee Assistance Programs, Lockheed Missile and Space, Sunnyvale, California
Sherry Conrad, Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, State of California, Sacramento
Michael Q. Ford, National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, Irvine, California
Uwe Gunnerson, Azure Acres Chemical Dependency Rehabilitation Center, Sebastopol, California
Y-Ing Hser, Drug Abuse Research Group, University of California, Los Angeles
Ed Liebson, Blue Cross of California, Oakland
Anthony Radcliffe, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center, Fontana, California
Galen Rogers, Preferred Management, San Diego, California
William Smith, Phoenix House, Santa Anna, California
Irma Strantz, Department of Health Services, County of Los Angeles, California
Susan Zepeda, Orange County Health Services Administration, Santa Anna, California
The committee's hosts during site visits to cities across the country offered a degree of cooperation, hospitality, and candor in response to the committee's questions that made a deep and lasting impression. The hosts received assurance that no comments or observations would be attributed to specific individuals or organizations and that individual anonymity would be full preserved. Many of those visited indicated that such assurances were not a precondition for their cooperation; nevertheless, these guarantees have been observed in the report, and the committee feels that it is important to uphold them here. Therefore, names of the many individual hosts in whose debt the study remains are not included here. The committee wishes, however, at least to signal the extent of their contributions by expressing its thanks to each of the following organizations for permitting access to their staff and facilities:
AIDS Outreach Project, Portland, Oregon
Allegheny County Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Drug Abuse Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bank of America, San Francisco, California
Bay Area Treatment Services, Berkeley, California
Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York
The City of New York Office of Municipal Labor Relations
Comprehensive Care Corporation, Irvine, California
Comprehensive Options for Drug Abusers, Portland, Oregon
Cornerstone Correctional Treatment Program, Salem, Oregon
Daytop Village, New York, New York
Gateway Program, St. Louis, Missouri
Hooper Memorial Center, Central City Concern, Portland, Oregon
Hyland Center, St. Anthony Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Ielase Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District 100, Miami, Florida
ITT Corporation, New York, New York
Jewish Hospital Chemical Dependency Program, Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri
Martin Luther King/Charles A. Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Metro Dade County Office of Rehabilitative Services, Miami, Florida
Metro Dade County Office of Substance Abuse Control, Miami, Florida
Missouri Department of Mental Health, Division of Alcohol and Drugs, St. Louis
Multnomah County Alcohol and Drug Program, Portland, Oregon
Narcotic and Drug Research, Inc., New York, New York
Narcotics Addiction Services Council, St. Louis, Missouri
New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services, Albany
PBA, Inc., The Second Step, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Project for Community Recovery, Portland, Oregon
Project Rediscovery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Providence Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
Office of the State Attorney, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami
Outside-In, Portland, Oregon
Regional Drug Initiative, Portland, Oregon
St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Spectrum Programs, Miami, Florida
Southwestern Bell, St. Louis, Missouri
State of Oregon Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, Salem
TASC of Oregon, Portland
Up Front Drug Information Center, Miami, Florida
Walden House, San Francisco, California
Watts Health Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Western Health Services, Portland, Oregon
A final thanks is due to individuals who responded to the committee's questions in writing or with substantive materials that might not otherwise
have become known to the committee. These correspondents include Leslie Acoca, Novato, California; Karl Bernstein, Silver Spring, Maryland; Sheila Blume, Amityville, New York; Frank R. Burger, Nashville, Tennessee; Frank N. Coogan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Thomas J. Doherty, Washington, D.C.; Julie Donalson, Sacramento, California; P. Joseph Frawley, Santa Barbara, California; Cherry Lowman, New York, New York; Judith Ovisher, Arlington, Virginia; Max A. Schneider, Orange, California; James W. Smith, Santa Barbara, California; Jack R. Slaberg, Nashville, Tennessee; and Emanuel M. Steindler, New York, New York.