Modifying Group Therapy for Bipolar Substance Abusers - 1

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Conditions studied: Bipolar Disorder, Substance Dependence

In brief

The purpose of this study is to modify Integrated Group Therapy (IGT), which is has been found successful for patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and substance use disorder(SUD), so that it can be more readily adopted by community drug abuse treatment programs. IGT is being reduced from 20 to 12 sessions in this trial, and is being conducted by front-line drug counselors, to test its effectiveness in a more community-based setting. The training has been expanded so that counselors without much psychopathology training or cognitive behavioral therapy experience can conduct IGT.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00227838

Run by

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

People needed

60

Starts

2003-07-01

Expected to finish

2005-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-01-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• bipolar disorder substance dependence taking a mood stabilizer

You may not qualify if…

• acute psychosis no substance use in past 60 days no prescribing doctor will not be in area for next 15 months lives too far away

Where it is running

• McLean Hospital, Dept. of Psychiatry — Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

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