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Computer Program Helps Drug Abusers Stay Clean


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"At first glance, one might conclude that this computer-based training in some way threatens the conventionally perceived value of the relationship between the therapist and the patient, however, I do not see it as so," Dr. William Sledge, interim chair and professor of psychiatry at Yale, said in a prepared statement. "Rather, (the researchers) have demonstrated how a low cost but carefully conceived procedure can enhance conventional treatment and add an additional element of richness and effectiveness to its power."

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SOURCE: Yale University, news release, May 1, 2008


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