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Article: Treatment Types
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- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
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TREATMENT TYPES
This section provides the reader with brief descriptions of some of the diverse ways that people with substance-related problems can be helped.
Treatment Types
presents descriptions of distinct interventions that are applicable to dependence on each of a variety
of drugs. In practice, though, treatment programs are hybrids, incorporating features from several distinct treatment modalities and adapting them to specific needs having to do with age, gender, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic factors, provider preference, and the economic realities that govern
delivery of treatment.
Neither this section nor the one above on
Treatment
is exhaustive. A number of substance ...