TY  - JOUR
T1  - OUtpatient treatment and outcome of prescription drug abuse
AU  - Tennant FS, Jr
Y1  - 1979/02/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630390020011
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 154
EP  - 156
VL  - 139
IS  - 2
N2  - Forty-six consecutive patients who voluntarily sought outpatient treatment for abuse of one or more prescription drugs were studied. Barbiturates, amphetamines, and diazepam were the most common drugs abused. Desired treatments by patients included counseling, medical withdrawal, or medical maintenance with the drug of abuse or a chemically related drug. Twenty-two (47.8%) patients left treatment and relapsed within one month; another eight (17.4%) patients relapsed between one and three months after entering treatment. Only 13 (28.3%) reported abstinence 90 days after entering treatment. This experience suggests that a wide range of medical, social, and psychologic resources are required to treat prescription drug abuse, and that long-term drug abstinence is difficult to achieve with all patients.(Arch Intern Med 139:154-156, 1979)
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630390020011
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1979.03630390020011
ER  -