TY - JOUR
T1 - Pilot study of a social network intervention for heroin users in opiate substitution treatment
T2 - study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
AU - Day, Edward
AU - Copello, Alex
AU - Seddon, Jennifer L
AU - Christie, Marilyn
AU - Bamber, Deborah
AU - Powell, Charlotte
AU - George, Sanju
AU - Ball, Andrew
AU - Frew, Emma
AU - Freemantle, Nicholas
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Research indicates that 3% of people receiving opiate substitution treatment (OST) in the UK manage to achieve abstinence from all prescribed and illicit drugs within 3 years of commencing treatment, and there is concern that treatment services have become skilled at engaging people but not at helping them to enter a stage of recovery and drug abstinence. The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse recommends the involvement of families and wider social networks in supporting drug users' psychological treatment, and this pilot randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the impact of a social network-focused intervention for patients receiving OST.
AB - Research indicates that 3% of people receiving opiate substitution treatment (OST) in the UK manage to achieve abstinence from all prescribed and illicit drugs within 3 years of commencing treatment, and there is concern that treatment services have become skilled at engaging people but not at helping them to enter a stage of recovery and drug abstinence. The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse recommends the involvement of families and wider social networks in supporting drug users' psychological treatment, and this pilot randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the impact of a social network-focused intervention for patients receiving OST.
U2 - 10.1186/1745-6215-14-264
DO - 10.1186/1745-6215-14-264
M3 - Article
C2 - 23958332
SN - 1745-6215
VL - 14
SP - 264
JO - Trials
JF - Trials
ER -