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Network Therapy for Cocaine Abuse: Use of Family and Peer Supports
Article first published online: 18 FEB 2010
DOI: 10.1080/10550490290087938
2002 American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
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Galanter, M., Dermatis, H., Keller, D. and Trujillo, M. (2002), Network Therapy for Cocaine Abuse: Use of Family and Peer Supports. The American Journal on Addictions, 11: 161–166. doi: 10.1080/10550490290087938
Publication History
- Issue published online: 18 FEB 2010
- Article first published online: 18 FEB 2010
- Received April 16, 2001; accepted June 12, 2001.
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Cocaine-dependent subjects were treated by psychiatric residents in a 24-week sequence of Network Therapy. This approach, developed for practitioners in solo practice, employs a cognitive-behavioral orientation in sessions with family and peers as well as in individual sessions. Of 47 subjects, 73% of all observed weekly urines were negative for cocaine, and 20 (45%) of the subjects had negative toxicologies in the last 3 scheduled samples. A positive outcome was associated with the number of network (but not individual) sessions attended and completion of the full treatment sequence. Results suggest the utility of Network Therapy, even in the hands of relatively naive therapists.