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Choosing Weapons for the War on "Crack": An Operant Analysis

Mark A. Mattaini

Columbia University School of Social Work

Addiction to "crack" cocaine has rapidly emerged as a crucial social and political problem, particularly in major urban areas. Working as they do in child and family services, health and mental health, and other major social institutional settings, as well as in clinical and policy positions dealing directly with crack users, social workers deal increasingly with the resulting casualties. The current knowledge base is limited, but sufficient information about this substance, and addictive behavior in general, currently exists to provide tentative directions for clinical practice, pilot projects in prevention and treatment, and community-level intervention. This article considers the existing information, examining the data from an operant perspective that focuses particularly on potentially manipulable environmental factors, congruent with the ecosystemic perspective that uniquely characterizes social work practice. Probable crucial contingencies are identified, and directions for future work are suggested.

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 1, No. 2, 188-213 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/104973159100100206
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