Continuing Care

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State of the Science: Extending the Benefits of Addiction Treatment
May 3rd, 2011 / Conference Papers / Betty Ford Institute
BY: James R. McKay, Ph.D. and Deni Carise, Ph.D. SUMMARY: The second Betty Ford Institute conference took place on October 3 and 4, 2007. The topic of this conference was continuing care and recovery management for substance use disorders. The goals of the conference were to review evidence for the effectiveness of various approaches to continuing care, discuss new approaches to the long-term management of these disorders, and develop an agenda for future research. As was the case in the first Betty Ford Institute conference, the overarching purpose of this conference was for the...

Extending the Benefits of Addiction Treatment: Practical Strategies for Continuing Care and Recovery
May 3rd, 2011 / Conference Papers / Betty Ford Institute
BY: James R. McKay, Deni Carise, Michael L. Dennis, Robert Dupont, Keith Humphreys, Jack Kemp, Debra Reynolds, William White, Ron Annstrong, Mady Chalk, Beverly Haberle, Thomas McLellan, Garret O'Connor, Barton Pakull, John Schwarzlose SUMMARY: One of the primary goals of the conference was to arrive at position statements regarding continuing care. By the end of the conference, the participants produced position statements concerning three issues: (a) what is currently known about the components of effective continuing care, (b) factors that are likely to improve continuing care,...

Continuing Care Research: What We Have Learned and Where We are Going
May 3rd, 2011 / Conference Papers / Betty Ford Institute
AUTHOR: James R. McKay, Ph.D. SUMMARY: In the field of addiction treatment, the term continuing care has been used to indicate the stage of treatment that follows an initial episode of more intensive care. This article reviews controlled studies of continuing care conducted over the prior 20 years. The results indicate that continuing care interventions were more likely to produce positive treatment effects when they had a longer planned duration, made more active efforts to deliver treatment to patients, and were studied more recently. However, there was considerable variability in...