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CORONADO, CALIF. -- Mounting evidence suggests that behavioral and psychosocial interventions proven successful for cocaine dependence--such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and contingency management--may work equally well for methamphetamine dependence.
"We haven't looked at community reinforcement or 12-step facilitation with methamphetamine users, but I would argue that the treatments that we have evidence for cocaine efficacy should be considered very promising if not effective for the treatment of methamphetamine dependence," Richard Rawson, Ph.D., said at the annual meeting...
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