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Monitoring the process of recovery. Using electronic pagers as a treatment intervention
1Program Evaluation and Research, Parkside Medical Services Corporation, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068.
Recent Developments in Alcoholism : an Official Publication of the American Medical Society on Alcoholism, the Research Society on Alcoholism, and the National Council on Alcoholism
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Research aimed at understanding the process of recovery has focused on evaluating the treatment outcomes of alcohol or drug abuse programs. The goal is to identify the characteristics of people who report doing well posttreatment. Such research does not describe how recovery occurs. Rather, it indicates the characteristics associated with those who recover. Electronic pagers were employed in a research project to document the process of recovery as it occurs. This research has led to a clinical trial where such monitoring is part of the aftercare treatment.