Background Clinical guidelines recommend psychosocial interventions for cocaine and/or
amphetamine addiction as first-line treatment, but it is still unclear which intervention, if any …

Importance In the US and the United Kingdom, cocaine use is the second leading cause of
illicit drug overdose death. Psychosocial treatments for cocaine use disorder are limited, and …

Addiction treatment has not been appreciably improved by neuroscientific research. One
problem is that mechanistic studies using rodent models do not incorporate volitional social …

Objective: Despite significant advances in psychosocial treatments for substance use
disorders, the relative success of these approaches has not been well documented. In this …

The past three decades have been marked by tremendous progress in behavioral therapies
for drug abuse and dependence, as well as advances in the conceptualization of …

Addiction is a complex disease that impacts millions of people around the world. Clinically,
addiction is formalized as substance use disorder (SUD), with three primary symptom …

The opioid overdose epidemic is typically described as having occurred in 3 waves, with
morbidity and mortality accruing over time principally from prescription opioids (1999–2010) …

Objective Computer-delivered interventions have the potential to improve access to quality
addiction treatment care. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the …

This book uses a clinically oriented approach for working with patients and clients with
substance-use disorders. The material represents a blending together of my three major …

Background Research has led to improvements in the effectiveness of interventions for
substance use disorders (SUD), but for the most part progress has been modest, particularly …