Treatment collaboration of methadone maintenance programs and therapeutic communities

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
J L SorensenA Acampora

Abstract

Although they developed from different backgrounds, therapeutic communities and methadone maintenance programs became major treatments of heroin abuse in the 1970s. Research published in the last 5 years demonstrates that therapeutic communities are associated with long-lasting improvements in functioning for the few drug abusers who stay in treatment at least 3 months. A principal limitation of this modality is that few patients remain in treatment long enough to acquire the changed values that produce long-lasting effects. Research on methadone maintenance continues to show that this treatment produces immediate decreases in criminality and drug abuse; however, patients who taper off of maintenance are prone to relapse. The aspects of treatment that appear to prevent relapse include minimizing withdrawal symptoms during tapering and providing support during and after completing maintenance. The strengths of these two treatment modalities can be combined to enable narcotic addicts to taper off of methadone maintenance in a therapeutic community and remain drug-free. Several other clinical, administrative, and research collaborations could be beneficial, pooling the medical/technical expertise of maintenance programs with the i...Continue Reading

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