Coerced Treatment for Adults
February 20th, 2012 | Treatment | Comments Off
The human and societal costs of drug dependence have compelled virtually all sectors—medical, criminal justice, education, child welfare, social services, and religious—to search for effective solutions to prevent and treat ...
Primary Care Settings
February 8th, 2012 | Treatment | Comments Off
Medical settings offer the possibility of engaging patients with substance abuse diagnoses earlier in the course of their addictions and providing services to those who cannot or will not seek ...
Specialty Addiction Treatment Settings
February 8th, 2012 | Treatment | Comments Off
Current specialty addiction treatment programs do not routinely provide extensive medical services, and when medical services are provided, they are ancillary to the central role of psychosocial behavioral treatment.
The absence ...
Immunotherapy: Aggressive Actions of Drug Sel...
February 1st, 2012 | Treatment | Comments Off
Illicit drug markets are not well understood, so it is difficult to predict how drug dealers would respond to demand changes induced by immunotherapy or sustained-release formulations
Illicit drug markets are ...
Immunotherapy: Drug Substitution and Risk Cal...
February 1st, 2012 | Treatment | Comments Off
One possible behavioral response to immunotherapy or sustained-release medications for illicit drugs could be for users to substitute one (or more) substance for a blocked drug.
Drug Substitution
Immunotherapy and sustained-release medications ...
Immunotherapy: UNINTENDED BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUE...
February 1st, 2012 | Treatment | Comments Off
MacCoun undertakes such an exercise for immunotherapy and sustained-release formulations for treating drug addiction.
The “law of unintended consequences” demonstrates that promising innovations advanced with the noblest of intent can play ...
