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JOURNAL OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 313-318Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2004.03.002
Keywords
network therapy; buprenorphine; heroin; addiction treatment; social support
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- NCRR NIH HHS [M01RR00096] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDA NIH HHS [R01DA10728] Funding Source: Medline
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Network therapy (NT) employs family members and/or friends to support compliance with an addiction treatment carried out in office practice. This study was designed to ascertain whether NT is a useful psychosocial adjunct, relative to a control treatment, for achieving diminished illicit heroin use for patients on buprenorphine maintenance. Patients agreeing to randomization to either NT (N = 33) or medication management (MM, N = 33) were inducted onto short-term buprenorphine maintenance and then tapered to zero dose. NT resulted in significantly more urine toxicologies negative for opioids than MM (65% vs. 45%) and more NT than MM patients (50% vs. 23%) experienced a positive outcome relative to secondary heroin use by the end of treatment. The use of NT in office practice may therefore improve the effectiveness of eliminating secondary heroin use during buprenorphine maintenance. It may also be useful in enhancing compliance with an addiction treatment regimen in other contexts. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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