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Addictive behaviors and life problems before and after behavioral treatment of problem drinkers
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Although intervention focused primarily on drinking behavior, the majority of other life problems also showed improvement at all follow-up points andRemission of life problems was associated with decreased alcohol consumption and relapse to smoking coincided with unremitted drinking.About:
This article is published in Addictive Behaviors.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 102 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Smoking cessation & Poison control.read more
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Meta-analysis of Randomized Control Trials Addressing Brief Interventions in Heavy Alcohol Drinkers
TL;DR: Heavy drinkers who received a brief intervention were twice as likely to moderate their drinking 6 to 12 months after an intervention when compared with heavy drinkers who receive no intervention.
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Neurobiology of addiction. An integrative review.
TL;DR: An integrative review of the literature that addresses the neurobiology of addiction is presented, directed toward identifying candidate neurochemical substrates for the impairments in motivation-reward, affect regulation, and behavioral inhibition that could contribute to an addictive process.
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Stress, vulnerability and adult alcohol relapse.
TL;DR: Improvement in psychosocial domains (e.g., coping skills, social networks, perceived ability to tolerate relapse-risk situations) enhanced the ability of these men to remain abstinent despite severe stress, and supported the stress-vulnerability model of relapse.
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Smoking and drinking: a review of the literature.
Thomas H. Bien,Roann Burge +1 more
TL;DR: The assumption that alcoholics should be discouraged from quitting smoking as well as drinking is without empirical basis, and research should ascertain whether problem drinkers with greater positive association between alcohol and smoking benefit differentially from quitting both.
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The Effectiveness of Alcoholism Treatment
William R. Miller,Reid K. Hester +1 more
TL;DR: In 1979 the authors set out together on a journey to try to read every study that had ever been published (in languages they could understand) on the effectiveness of different approaches to treating alcohol problems.
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Focused versus broad-spectrum behavior therapy for problem drinkers.
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Relative effectiveness of bibliotherapy, individual and group self-control training in the treatment of problem drinkers.
TL;DR: The cost-effectiveness of a bibliotherapy approach was supported, consistent with prior research, and overall improvement rates were 84% and 69% at 3- and 12-month follow-up, respectively.
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Two-year follow-up of bibliotherapy and therapist-directed controlled drinking training for problem drinkers
William R. Miller,Louise M. Baca +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two-year blind fllow-up interviews were completed with 69 of 82 problem drinkers treated by behavioral self-control training offered in various formats including bibliotherapy, individual counseling, and group therapy.
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