Overview
- Reviews the opioid epidemic in the United States alongside current standard-of-care treatment approaches and gaps in access to care
- Explores the evidence, as well as effective practices, for improved treatment outcomes in treatment-resistant populations with opioid use disorder
- Places the therapeutic community modality within current systems-of-care for individuals with opioid use disorder
- Presents evidence from current therapeutic communities across the world, including Italy, Greece, and prison-based communities in the United States
- Takes a reader-friendly approach to the topic
- Written by experts in the field
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book aims to explore the evidence supporting the therapeutic community (TC) modality as a uniquely effective approach to care of individuals living with opioid use disorder and other addictions, and also to identify salient mediators of improved outcome, including long-term treatment and removal from the opioid-associated environment. The book includes multiple international perspectives and is designed for worldwide appeal—for countries that have established some TCs with success, those looking to improve care, and those looking to build them for the first time.
Written by experts in addiction psychiatry and medicine, this book describes the unique role of therapeutic communities in treating substance use disorders, how the model has changed over time and adapted to diverse sociocultural contexts and systems of care, and how the TC model may serve an important population in the context of the current opioid epidemic. The chapters are written so as to be accessible for clinicians across specialties and professions.
The Opioid Epidemic and the Therapeutic Community Model is an excellent resource for all professionals interested in diverse and effective models of care to treat opioid use disorder and other addictions, including addiction medicine specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, rehabilitation administrators, hospitalists, social workers, public health workers, students, and the interested public
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jonathan Avery, MD
Director of Addiction Psychiatry
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College
525 East 68th Street, Box 140
New York, NY 10065
Kristopher A. Kast, MD
Chief Resident for General Adult Psychiatry
Payne Whitney Clinic of New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Weill Cornell Medical College
525 East 68th Street, Box 140
New York, NY 10065
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Opioid Epidemic and the Therapeutic Community Model
Book Subtitle: An Essential Guide
Editors: Jonathan D. Avery, Kristopher A. Kast
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26273-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26272-3Published: 01 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26273-0Published: 18 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 154
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Social Work