Six-month treatment outcomes of cocaine-dependent patients with and without PTSD in a multisite national trial.

Autor:	Najavits LM; National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA. lisa_najavits@hms.harvard.edu, Harned MS, Gallop RJ, Butler SF, Barber JP, Thase ME, Crits-Christoph P
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs [J Stud Alcohol Drugs] 2007 May; Vol. 68 (3), pp. 353-61.
DOI:	10.15288/jsad.2007.68.353
Abstrakt:	Objective: This study examined 6-month treatment outcomes among 428 cocaine-dependent outpatients with (n = 34) and without (n = 394) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a randomized controlled multisite clinical trial of manual-based psychotherapies for substance use disorder (SUD). Method: Assessments were completed at baseline and monthly during the 6-month treatment. With longitudinal mixed-effects models, we compared outcomes between SUD-PTSD and SUD-only patients and also examined rates of within-group change. Results: Results indicated a highly consistent pattern: the SUD-PTSD patients were more impaired to begin with and remained so across time compared with SUD-only patients (with the exception of substance use and addiction-related legal and employment problems, which did not differ between groups). Also, the SUD-PTSD patients improved less than SUD-only patients in alcohol use and the majority of addiction-related psychosocial problems. However, the two groups did not differ significantly in improvement over time on drug use or global psychological severity. Conclusions: The greater impairment and relative lack of improvement of SUD-PTSD patients, compared with those with SUD-only, suggest a need for dual-diagnosis treatments that more directly target their areas of difficulty.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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