THERAPEUTICS
Review: Substance use disorders respond to psychosocial interventions
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How effective are psychosocial treatments for the management of cannabis, cocaine, opiate and polysubstance abuse and dependence?
Self-reported abstinence (maximum number days/weeks, mean percent of days abstinent during treatment, percentage of sample abstinent 
3 weeks during treatment, percentage of sample with post treatment abstinence), post-treatment score on the Addiction Severity Index, and toxicology (mean number and percent of negative screens during treatment, percent of sample demonstrating abstinence).
Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis.
Data sources: PsycINFO and MEDLINE (searched from date of inception to March 2005), and search of the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (first quarter of 2005).
Study selection and analysis:
All English-language RCTs of any individual psychosocial interventions for any substance abuse (excluding alcohol or nicotine abuse/dependence) compared to a control (eg, waiting list, treatment as usual). Trials had to include only participants aged 18 years and be in a nonintensive outpatient setting with no more than
Reader in Addiction Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK
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