101611: Cocaine Research Update: Collection VIII (NIDA Notes)

About the Course:

This course is based on three NIDA Notes articles. NIDA Notes is a large collection of brief, relevant articles focusing on current drug abuse treatment evidence.

Cocaine Abusers’ Pretreatment Cue Responses Predict Recovery Success describes how in the future, patients’ brain scans may help clinicians tailor addiction treatment to improve therapeutic outcomes.

Cocaine Related Enviornment Cues Elicit Physiological Stress Responses explains how drug cues induce physiological stress responses in cocaine-addicted patients.

Men and Women May Process Cocaine Cues Differently reveals how some aspects of cocaine addiction and recovery are different for men and women.

All three articles are contained in one PDF.

Journal/Publisher:

NIDA

Publication Date:

February 2007, August 2005, and December 2004

Author

Lori Whitten

About the Author:

Lori Whitten is a NIDA Notes staff writer.

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about how cocaine abusers’ pretreatment cue responses predict recovery success, how cocaine-related environment cues elicit physiological stress responses, and how men and women may process cocaine cues differently. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Describe how cocaine abusers’ pretreatment cue responses predict recovery success.

2. Acknowledge how cocaine-related environmental cues elicit physiological stress responses.

3. Explain how men and women may process cocaine cues differently.