Counseling an Important Aspect of Drug drug addiction treatment
June 22nd, 2008
Counseling an Important Aspect of Drug drug addiction treatment
In a study that compared opiate addicts receiving only methadone to those receiving methadone coupled with counseling, individuals who received only methadone showed minimal improvement in reducing opiate use. The addition of counseling produced significantly more improvement. The addition of onsite medical/psychiatric, employment, and family services further improved outcomes. Detailed addiction treatment San Francisco manuals contain work sheets for individual sessions; other components include family addiction treatment San Francisco groups, early recovery skills groups, relapse prevention groups, conjoint sessions, urine tests, 12-step California drug rehab, relapse analysis, and social support groups.
In another study with cocaine addicts, individualized drug counseling, together with group drug counseling, was quite effective in reducing cocaine use. Thus, it appears that this approach has great utility with both heroin and cocaine addicts in outpatient chemical dependency treatment.
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