PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Metered-Dose Inhaler, Methadone
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Treatments for substance-related disorders: the treatments for substance-related disorders have been based on the disease model, which views these disorders as medical diseases, the disease model suggests that biological treatments are most appropriate. The controlled drinking controversy: canadian researchers mark and linda sobell published one of the first studies showing that a cognitive behaviourally oriented controlled drinking program can work for alcoholics, perhaps even better than a traditional abstinence program. The first step is to admit they are alcoholics and powerless to control the effects of alcohol. Aa encourages members to seek help from a higher power, to admit to their weaknesses, and to ask for forgiveness. Program (astp) targets heavy-drinking university students for intervention: they are also taught to calculate their own blood-alcohol concentration. These high-risk students were then randomly assigned to receive either a one-session intervention based on the alcohol skills training program or no intervention, sometime in january through march of their first year of university.
