Exercise as an Adjunctive Treatment for Substance Use Disorders: Rationale and Intervention Description

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Volumn 72, Issue , 2017, Pages 40-47

  Weinstock, Jeremiah ^a   Farney, Margaret R ^a   Elrod, Noel M ^a   Henderson, Craig E ^b   Weiss, Edward P ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Incentives; Physical activity; Sedentary

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MOTIVATION; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES; REWARD;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; REWARD; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84995877441     PISSN: 07405472     EISSN: 18736483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2016.09.002     Document Type: Article

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