Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Assertive Continuing Care effectiveness

More evidence for the effectiveness of assertive continuing care (ACC) in adolescents. It's an important emerging recovery management approach:
ACC led to significantly greater continuing care linkage and retention and longer-term abstinence from marijuana. ACC resulted in significantly better adherence to continuing care criteria which, in turn, predicted superior early abstinence. Superior early abstinence outcomes for both conditions predicted longer-term abstinence.

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