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Article: CBT Is Best Approach for Teen Substance Abuse.(cognitive-behavioral therapy)(Brief Article)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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ASPEN, COLO. -- The short list of evidence-based treatments for adolescent substance abuse consists of psychosocial therapies only; there are no empirically supported pharmacotherapies, Dr. Paula Riggs stressed at a psychiatry conference sponsored by the University of Colorado.
For this reason, she advised avoiding medications, even though some have been shown effective in adults. She urged instead sticking to those methods of psychotherapy for which "we have tons of support in the form of multiple controlled trials in adolescents with substance use disorder, namely cognitive-behavioral therapy, family-based therapy, behavior therapy, and multisystemic ...