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Abstract
The purpose of this article is to describe an interdisciplinary clinical trial conducted in a community-based setting. The article will (a) present an overview of the current study, (b) detail an innovative outpatient relapse prevention group therapy practice model informed by the neuroscientific literature on addiction, (c) present case examples of patient response to treatment, and (d) provide qualitative data of patient feedback and preliminary functional magnetic resonance imaging data results.
Acknowledgments
Financial support for this study was provided by Virginia Commonwealth University from a research award made to Holly C. Matto, and support from George Mason University. Research support was also provided by Georgetown University's Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, under the directorship of Dr. John VanMeter. Additional support was provided by Inova Health System. We would specifically like to acknowledge Dr. Thomas Wise, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Inova, and Dr. Husam Alathari, medical director of addiction medicine at Inova Fairfax Hospital, for their enduring support. We are grateful to Ellen Yacoe who was part of the research team and offered creative arts therapies expertise. We would also like to acknowledge the following clinicians at Inova Fairfax Hospital who were part of the clinical care team that was instrumental in carrying out this study: Victoria Blum, Katelin Buchanan, Jennifer Carlton, Regina Collins, Cate Evans, Nancy Gordon, Ana Cristina Lusker, and Abbey May.