Acknowledgments

This project was conducted for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Office of Applied Studies (OAS), by Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc.(SMDI), Arlington, Virginia, and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR), Princeton, New Jersey, under Contract No. 283-97-9001. Project Directors were Peter Hurley (SMDI) and Geraldine Mooney (MPR). Data collection was performed by MPR's  interviewing and quality control staff under the direction of Barbara Rogers and Barbara Holland. This report was prepared by Leigh Henderson and James DeLozier of SMDI, and benefited greatly from review by OAS staff Patricia Royston, Cathie Alderks, Gerri Scott-Pinkney, and Deborah Trunzo (Project Officer), and by SMDI staff editor Elizabeth Walter.

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