Drug Abuse, Drug Treatment, and Public Policy

Abstract

(from the chapter) focus on psychological topics and analyses of drug abuse treatment and related policy / discuss (1) contingency management, (2) skill training, (3) the provision of psychological services in methadone treatment, (4) psychological issues involved in different methadone treatment modalities, and (5) psychopharmacology, specifically the psychopharmacological treatment of cocaine abuse / highlights several different areas of issues in policy analyses and drug treatment / traditional contingency systems / community reinforcement approaches (CRA) to contingency management / adoption of contingency systems / systems and innovations: contingencies as a model / skill training and illicit drugs / skill training in the treatment of nicotine dependence: "natural" dissemination of techniques / methadone treatment / cocaine treatment (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)