Comparative cocaine abuse treatment strategies: enhancing client retention and treatment exposure.

摘要: The current investigation explores the clinical utility in providing a series of enhanced services to sample 303 cocaine-abusing clients (primarily crack smokers) relative standard group therapy treatment program. In addition examining comparative impact six varying psychosocial approaches for cocaine abuse on client retention and exposure rates, an additional emphasis has been examine ability fixed dynamic variables predicting outcome this regard. No (e.g., sex, income, marital status, income level, or employment status) recent alcohol use, antisocial personality disorder diagnoses, motivational variables) characteristics were useful rates. Program characteristics, however, frequency, intensity, and/or type offered, related exposure. Treatment significantly by with more frequent intensive therapy, adding individual regimen. With population such as abusers, who typically have extremely high dropout rate, obvious strategy is focus efforts engaging retaining treatment, maximizing levels findings suggest that one successful approach towards enhancing treatments increase types offered.