Disease relevance of Therapeutic Community

• To evaluate the responses of circulating beta-endorphin, met-enkephalin and ACTH to sauna-induced hyperthermia, 8 male heroin addicts recently admitted to a therapeutic community and 8 age-matched normal subjects were examined [1].

Psychiatry related information on Therapeutic Community

• 2. Buprenorphine's pharmacologic profile provides a missing link in available modalities for opiate dependence treatment, making it acceptable for many addicts who will not accept methadone maintenance treatment, join a residential therapeutic community, or be successful on naltrexone treatment [2].
• Although they developed from different backgrounds, therapeutic communities and methadone maintenance programs became major treatments of heroin abuse in the 1970s [3].
• The psychiatrically severe drug abuse patient: methadone maintenance or therapeutic community [4]?

High impact information on Therapeutic Community

• Favorableness of one-year posttreatment outcomes with respect to illicit drug use, criminality, and employment and other productive activities was found to increase linearly with the length of time patients stayed in methadone maintenance, a therapeutic community, or outpatient drug-free treatment [5].
• Treatment groups included methadone hydrochloride maintenance, therapeutic community, outpatient drug free, outpatient detoxification, and a comparison group that completed intake but did not enter treatment [6].
• All subjects (n = 52) met criteria for DMS-III-R cocaine dependence (in the form of crack), and were residing in a drug-free therapeutic community [7].
• These data indicate that the widespread acceptance of the fixed diazepam-dothiepin combination by the therapeutic community is not due to an increase in the positive reinforcing effect of diazepam by dothiepin but that, in contrast, addition of dothiepin might even decrease diazepam's moderately positive reinforcing effect [8].
• The purpose of this paper is to describe an aspect of the functioning of a therapeutic community conceptualized in terms of a sociotherapy framework as adumbrated, for example, by Edelson (1970), Rapoport (1960), and White et al [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Therapeutic Community

• Wormwood Scrubs Annexe--a therapeutic community within a prison: discussion paper [10].
• High doses of Haldol in the treatment of 5 young schizophrenics in a therapeutic community [11].
• This study showed that those children or adolescents with severe problems who were not rejected by the therapeutic community and who received the support of the Local Authority, parents etc. were likely to be more effective in adjusting to life outside the therapeutic community in due course [12].

Gene context of Therapeutic Community

• In this article, the authors describe the refinement and preliminary evaluation of the Dimensions of Change in Therapeutic Community Treatment Instrument (DCI), a measure of treatment process [13].
• This paper investigates the relationship between Trail Making scores and observer rated aggressive behaviour of 33 patients in a therapeutic community [14].
• The overall evaluation of DARP treatments by former clients was generally favorable and was highest for the DARP therapeutic community [15].
• The Draw-A-Person Test was administered to 30 black and 30 white male drug abusers, in a residential therapeutic community [16].
• This study compared homeless mentally ill chemical abuser (MICA) clients (n = 342), male and female, sequentially assigned to either of two modified therapeutic community programs (TC1 and TC2) and to a treatment-as-usual (TAU) control group [17].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Therapeutic Community

• Treatment outcome was evaluated for perinatal cocaine addicts admitted to a hospital-based day treatment clinic, organized as a modified therapeutic community (TC) modality [18].
• An ongoing project to develop such an intervention has revealed: Conditioned withdrawal and craving are pervasive among both methadone maintained patients (even though actual physical withdrawal is blocked) and drug-free patients even after 30 days of inpatient Therapeutic Community rehabilitation [19].

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