Jean Donaldson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of five short-term outpatient interventions for adolescents with cannabis use disorders, including Motivational Enhancement Therapy plus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MET/CBT) with a 12-session regimen of MET and CBT and another that included family education and therapy components.

TL;DR: Overall, the clinical outcomes were very similar across sites and conditions; however, after controlling for initial severity, the most cost-effective interventions were MET/CBT5 and MET-CBT12 in Trial 1 and ACRA and MET/ CBT5 in Trial 2.

TL;DR: The authors in this paper provided a description of the rationale, study design, treatments and assessment procedures used in the Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) experiment, which involved two community-based treatment programs and two major medical centers.

TL;DR: The need for effective approaches to treating cannabis use disorders transcends debates about whether it should be legal as mentioned in this paper, and the costs to society are continuing to mount from past neglect of this continuing public health problem.

TL;DR: The 9-session treatment reduced marijuana smoking and associated consequences significantly more than the 2- session treatment, which also reduced marijuana use relative to the DTC condition.