McHugo G J, Drake R E, Burton H L, Ackerson T H
New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 1995 Dec;183(12):762-7. doi: 10.1097/00005053-199512000-00006.
Substance abuse is common among persons with severe mental illness, but few measures exist for clinicians to evaluate treatment progress. The Substance Abuse Treatment Scale (SATS) combines a motivational hierarchy with explicit substance use criteria to form an eight-stage model of the recovery process. Data are presented supporting the reliability and validity of the SATS, based on its use in a community-based sample of persons with dual disorders. The SATS can be used as either a process or an outcome measure, for individuals or for groups, and its value in making explicit the stages of substance abuse treatment is discussed.
