Saturday, April 09, 2005

Changing the face of drug addiction treatment, Rockefeller University researchers / Medical News Today

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=22157
"People addicted to heroin, alcohol and other drugs of abuse often fail to stay clean because they won't go to or won't stay in treatment. A treatment approach called contingency management improves patients' motivation to stay in treatment and increases their therapeutic progress."
The Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Jan 2005