Alcohol Withdrawal : Treatment and Application
Introduction Alcohol was used in Egypt since the time of the pharaohs, when wine played an important part in ceremonial life. . Egyptian texts more than 8000-years-old made reference to…
Substance Use–Focused Mutual-Help Groups : Processes and Outcomes
Acknowledgments Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service funds (RCS 00-001) supported preparation of the manuscript. The views expressed here are those of the author. Introduction Twelve-step…
The Therapeutic Community for Drug Abuse Treatment : A Journey Yet Unfolding in the Recovery Movement
Introduction Since we finished this chapter in 2012, there has been a notable gap in therapeutic community outcome research. Although systematic reviews of the research in recent years on the…
Adolescent Neurocognitive Development and School-Based Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Acknowledgment This paper was supported by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (No. DA13814, DA016090, DA020138, and P50 DA16094). Introduction Schools are an efficient and convenient choice of…
Criminal Justice System and Addiction Treatment
Introduction Compared with other nations, the United States incarcerates the largest percentage of its citizens, with close to 7 million adults and 650,000 youth under some form of criminal justice…
Community Clinics
Introduction The first section of this chapter traces the history of community clinic treatment for substance use disorders. Next, the chapter reviews various venues for community treatment and the effectiveness…
Unhealthy Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Primary Care
Introduction The Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has provided a working definition of primary care: Primary care is the provision of integrated, accessible health…
Self-Help Approaches for Addictions
Defining Self-Help Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Self-help approaches to addiction encompass those strategies designed to reduce or eliminate substance…
Brief and e-Health Interventions for the Treatment of Alcohol or Other Drug Addiction
Drug Use and Problems A broad range of treatment approaches are available and necessary for the management of persons with problem drug and/or alcohol use. Individuals with problem substance use…
Relapse Prevention and Recycling in Addiction
Introduction In the struggle to be free from addiction, for most individuals, repeated attempts are required to stop the addictive behavior. Multiple attempts to change and multiple treatment events are…
