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Alcohol & Chemical Dependency
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Reduced PTSD Symptoms Lead to Reduced Substance Abuse, but Not the Other Way Around |
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
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 A new study from researchers at C.C.N.Y. (City College of New York) examined the connection between improvements in posttraumatic stress and improvement in substance abuse over the course of time in 353 women diagnosed with both conditions.
Participants were randomly assigned to 12 sessions of either trauma-focused treatment or health education. Assessments were made on the PTS and the substance use during treatment at 1 week and posttreatment after 3, 6, and 12 months.
Subjects showing no improvement, an improvement in the substance use
only, or a total, global improvement early on, tended to maintain their
original diagnosis over time; but subjects initially exhibiting
improvement in their PTSD symptoms were significantly more likely to
transition into a global response over time, indicating that they
maintained their PTSD improvement, and that it was associated with
subsequent improvements in substance use.
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Enhanced Negative Emotion and Alcohol Craving |
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
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Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University’s School of Medicine investigated whether people who chronically abuse alcohol are extra-vulnerable to changes in stress levels altering their alcohol cravings. Twenty-eight treatment-engaged, 28-day abstinent, alcohol-dependent (AD) individuals - 6 females, 22 males - and another twenty-eight social drinkers (SD) - 10 females, 18 males - were exposed to three different brief, stress-evoking, guided imagery exercises: (1) a personalized stressful imagery, (2) an alcohol-related stressful imagery and (3)a neutral-relaxing imagery - one condition per session, presented in random order across 3 days. |
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Mindfulness meditation and substance use in an incarcerated population. |
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Friday, 20 October 2006 |
A new study at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington
in Seattle, explored whether Vipassana meditation (VM), a Buddhist
mindfulness-based practice, can provide an alternative for individuals
who find traditional addiction treatments incompatible or unattractive.
The investigators evaluated the effectiveness of a VM course on
substance use and psychosocial outcomes in an incarcerated population.
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Alcoholics Anonymous: cult or cure |
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Monday, 28 November 2005 |
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George Vaillant, Harvard researcher, psychiatrist and leading expert in the field of chemical dependency, concludes that AA is a first rank treatment for alcoholism, and that professional skepticism about AA is unwarranted.
Harvard researcher, psychiatrist and leading chemical dependency expert, George Vaillant, reviewed the research on effective treatments for alcoholism and assessed recovery in two community cohorts of adolescent males, followed from 1940 through the present day. |
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Self-hypnosis relapse prevention training with chronic drug/alcohol users. |
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Monday, 02 August 2004 |
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In one randomized, placebo-controlled study with 261 substance abusing vets, a self-hypnosis protocol did not effect the rate of relapse, but it did help with self-esteem, serenity and levels of anger & impulsivity. |
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Efficacy of disulfiram and cognitive behavior therapy in cocaine-dependent outpatients. |
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Monday, 05 April 2004 |
Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine
compared the effectiveness of disulfiram (Antabuse) with placebo
medication as well as against Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) in reducing cocaine use in a
randomized, placebo-controlled, double blinded (regarding the meds)
design.
At a community-based, outpatient, substance abuse treatment program,
121 patients meeting the criteria for current cocaine dependence were
randomly assigned to four treatment conditions: disulfiram (Antabuse)
plus CBT, disulfiram plus IPT, placebo plus CBT, and placebo plus IPT. |
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Use and assessment of complementary and alternative therapies by intravenous drug users. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2003 |
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Researchers at the U. of Maryland School of Medicine find that nearly half of intravenous drug users in needle exchange or methadone programs make use of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies.
The Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore launched a cross-sectional survey of intravenous drug users to determine the extent they made use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. |
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Coping skills and treatment outcomes in cognitive-behavioral group therapy for alcoholism |
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Thursday, 14 August 2003 |
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Coping skills and treatment outcomes in cognitive-behavioral and interactional group therapy for alcoholism. |
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