title: Outpatient treatment of cocaine addiction: suggestions to increase its effectiveness.
abstract: Faced with the difficult challenge of making effective treatment more available to larger numbers of addicts/users at lower cost, providers and payers of addiction/drug user treatment in the U.S. are looking for cost-effective models of outpatient care as alternatives to expensive residential treatment. This article discusses the clinical appropriateness of outpatient treatment and how to make it more efficacious for cocaine and crack addicts/users.
authors.affiliation: Washton Institute New York, New York 10016.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Washton
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stone-Washton
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000191:economics*; D003042:Cocaine; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D016578:Crack Cocaine; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / Q000191:economics; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D016578:Crack Cocaine; D003042:Cocaine