Author: hatmaker510
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:32 am
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| But if you look at the research you will see that adding therapy of some kind offers a much greater chance at continued recovery. |
According to research provided by Dr. Junig, the largest study of its kind actually showed the opposite results – that counseling/therapy made no difference in relapse rates.
This is from Dr. J’s blog:
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| Over 600 people taking buprenorphine were followed in a recent study that you can read about here. The study showed more of the same– that patients taken off buprenorphine universally relapse. But the study showed something that I found interesting, but not all that surprising. You see, everyone always loves to say that buprenorphine is fine, but ‘only if there is counseling too.’ I always get a kick out of how many people think ‘counseling’ is a good idea– as long as it is for someone else! This study of people on buprenorphine compared a control group that had a quick med check each week during the study period, with a ‘counseling group’ that had two one-hour sessions per week throughout the period, talking about interpersonal issues, personality problems, trauma and stress in the patients’ lives, and other feel-good issues. Guess what? There was NO DIFFERENCE in relapse rates between the control group and the addicts that received intensive counseling. None. Nada. Zero. |
This is the link to the study provided by the good doctor: http://suboxonetalkzone.com/Relapse.pdf.
If there is more research on the subject, I think it would be great if someone shared that with us.
