Addiction Treatment Aftercare Outcome Study

Addiction Treatment in America: After Money or Aftercare?

There are approximately 14,500 clinics and programs in America that provide treatment for all types of addictive behaviors we call "Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS)". While most of these have good intentions to provide needed help to the victims of RDS, we propose herein that most of their efforts, especially during periods of aftercare, are not based on the existing scientific evidence. We use...

Compliance with aftercare treatment, including disulfiram, and effect on outcome in alcohol-dependent patients.

AIM To delineate the features of treatment compliance which predicted outcome during aftercare treatment in a series of patients that completed an inpatient program at the Lisbon Regional Alcohology Centre (CRAS). METHODS Seventy-four alcohol dependent patients, sequentially admitted to the inpatient treatment of CRAS, were followed over 6 months after discharge. This study focused on the pre...

NIDA-Drug Addiction Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS) Relapse as a Function of Spirituality/Religiosity

BACKGROUND The connection between religion/spirituality and deviance, like substance abuse, was first made by Durkheim who defined socially expected behaviors as norms. He explained that deviance is due in large part to their absence (called anomie), and concluded that spirituality lowers deviance by preserving norms and social bonds. Impairments in brain reward circuitry, as observed in Reward...

Coverage of Addiction Treatment

Consider these facts: An often-debilitating brain disease afflicts millions of Americans. This disease is one of the country's greatest killers. Its victims frequently suffer from depression and many physical ailments, and often become unable to work effectively. The disease costs the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually-more than cancer, more than heart disease.' Fortunately, ...

Treatment of drug addiction.