Modifying Drug Abuse Treatment
Briefly described below are our major current, planned, and recently completed studies.
Comparative Evaluation of a Vocationally Integrated Therapeutic Community (VITC) and a Traditional Therapeutic Community
This project, supported by the federal Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), is studying the comparative effectiveness of two treatment models. One, a Vocationally Integrated Therapeutic Community (VITC), integrates vocational education from the outset of treatment. The other, a traditional therapeutic community, delays vocational education until the primary phase of treatment is completed. The goal of the first phase of this study is determining whether retention is better and more cost effective for residents randomly assigned to VITC (at the Phoenix Career Academy in Brooklyn) or for residents randomly assigned to a traditional program (at the Long Island City Treatment Center). Our research partner in this study is Drexel University Medical College, Department of Psychiatry.
Motivational Interviewing Training: Live Supervision by Tele-Conference
Working with partners at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, we will be learning more about training clinicians to motivate clients. The project, supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), seeks to develop a new means of teaching clinicians, via teleconferencing, to use Motivational Interviewing, a widely tested method that has been found to improve treatment outcome for patients with alcohol or drug dependence.
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