Can a 12-step program work in methadone maintenance treatment?

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1135-1153

  Ronel, Natti ^a   Gueta, Keren ^a   Abramsohn, Yali ^b   Caspi, Nir ^b   Adelson, Miriam ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Treatment and Research   (Israel)

Author keywords

12 step program; addiction; methadone maintenance; recovery; spirituality

Indexed keywords

METHADONE; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; GROUP THERAPY; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OPIATE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL STIGMA;

ADULT; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; METHADONE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NARCOTICS; OPIATE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SELF EFFICACY; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL STIGMA; SPIRITUALITY; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 80053587373     PISSN: 0306624X     EISSN: 15526933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X10382570     Document Type: Article

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