It is organized first by drug and then by treatment approach. Different approaches are described for
Alcohol, Cocaine, Heroin, Polydrug Abuse, and
Tobacco. The reader should also see the entries for each of these topics and the entries for
Barbiturates, Inhalants, and
Nicotine under their individual headings, and the section belowentitled
Treatment Types.
This section contains the following articles:
Alcohol Abuse: 2000 and Beyond;
Alcohol, An Overview;
Alcohol, Behavioral Approaches;
Alcohol, Pharmacotherapy;
Cocaine, An Overview;
Cocaine, Behavioral Approaches;
Cocaine, Pharmacotherapy;
Drug Abuse: 2000 and Beyond;
Heroin, Behavioral Approaches;
Heroin, Pharmacotherapy;
Marijuana, An Overview;
Polydrug Abuse, An Overview;
Polydrug Abuse, Pharmacotherapy;
Tobacco, An Overview;
Tobacco, Pharmacotherapy;
Tobacco, Psychological Approaches;
Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF).
Alcohol Abuse: 2000 and Beyond
Every day, more than 700,000 people in the United States receive treatment for problems with alcohol use. Treatment can be behavioral therapy, or behavioral therapy in combination with medication. New therapies will likely take advantage of findings from neuroscience about alcohol's effects in the brain and include medications targeted at specific sites in the brain involved in the development of alcohol use problems.
Behavioral Therapy and Alcoholisim Treatment
A broad range of psychological therapies currently are used to treat alcoholism. Many of these therapies have been in use for some thirty years. Others are more recent developments.
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