101626: Drug Abuse Treatment Evidence: Collection IV (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.

Combination Treatment for One Year Doubles Smokers’ Quit Rate relates that smoking cessation rates improve with year-long combination treatment.

A Brief Encounter With Peer Educator Can Motivate Abstinence describes how a single meeting with a peer addiction educator during a routine medical visit has helped out-of-treatment cocaine and opiate abusers attain abstinence.

Telephone-Based Continuing Care Sustains Abstinence explains how telephone-based continuing care, in which an addiction counselor supports patient recovery with 15-minute calls once a week, can be as good as or better than face-to-face care at helping most patients maintain abstinence after intensive outpatient treatment (IOP).

All three articles are contained in one PDF.

Journal/Publisher:

NIDA

Publication Date:

March 2006 and October 2005

Authors

Patrick Zickler; Lori Whitten

About the Authors:

Patrick Zickler is a NIDA Notes staff writer.

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 combination treatment for one year doubles smokers’ quit rate, how a brief encounter with a peer educator can help motivate abstinence, and how telephone-based continuing care sustains abstinence. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Describe how smoking cessation rates improve with year-long treatment.

2. Explain how a brief encounter with a peer educator can motivate abstinence.

3. Acknowledge that telephone-based continuing care sustains abstinence.