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Attending to emotional cues for drug abuse: bridging the gap between clinic and home behaviors.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Classical conditioning models of addiction provide keys to understanding the vexing discrepancy between substance abuse patients' desire to abstain when they are in therapy sessions and their tendency to relapse. Experiments using these models demonstrate the power of environmental relapse cues and support clinical approaches, including active exposure, aimed at helping patients recognize and withstand them. Internal cues, including emotions and somatic states such as withdrawal, can trigger urges as powerfully as external cues such as people, places, and things associated with prior abuse. The authors describe a cogni...
Source: Science and Practice Perspectives : a publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health - April 1, 2007 Category: Addiction Authors: Otto MW, O' Cleirigh CM, Pollack MH Tags: Sci Pract Perspect Source Type: journals

Quality and Performance Improvement: What's a Program to Do?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes some of the shifts already under way and offers advice on how organizations can get ready for the coming changes. PMID: 17514072 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Science and Practice Perspectives : a publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health - April 1, 2007 Category: Addiction Authors: McCorry F Tags: Sci Pract Perspect Source Type: journals

One Program's Transition to Research-Based Strategies for Treating Methamphetamine Abuse.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Prairie Ridge Addiction Treatment Services turned to SAMHSA's Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 33, "Treatment for Stimulant Use Disorders," to try to establish more effective practices for their fast-growing population of methamphetamine-addicted clients. Six years later, Prairie Ridge's executive director says that adopting the TIP's client-based treatment philosophy has enhanced the program's accessibility and results, not only for stimulant-abusing clients, but others as well. In this article he recounts how the TIP contents meshed with Prairie Ridge's preexisting treatment philosophy and practices; what they ad...
Source: Science and Practice Perspectives : a publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health - April 1, 2007 Category: Addiction Authors: Hansen J Tags: Sci Pract Perspect Source Type: journals

Assessing organizational functioning as a step toward innovation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents organizational change as a three-stage process of adopting, implementing, and routinizing new procedures; describes the use of the ORC; and outlines a step-by-step procedure for clearing away potential obstacles before setting forth on the road to improved practices and outcomes. PMID: 17514069 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Science and Practice Perspectives : a publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health - April 1, 2007 Category: Addiction Authors: Simpson DD, Dansereau DF Tags: Sci Pract Perspect Source Type: journals

Imaging the addicted human brain.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents the five most commonly used techniques, explains how each produces images, and describes how researchers interpret them. The authors give examples of key findings illustrating how each technique has extended and deepened our knowledge of the neurobiological bases of drug abuse and addiction, and they address potential clinical and therapeutic applications. PMID: 17514067 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Science and Practice Perspectives : a publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health - April 1, 2007 Category: Addiction Authors: Fowler JS, Volkow ND, Kassed CA, Chang L Tags: Sci Pract Perspect Source Type: journals