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Consistent with a craving reduction mechanism of how chemical aversion therapy facilitates sobriety, results of the UW fMRI brain scans showed significant pre- to post-treatment reductions in craving-related brain activity in the occipital cortex. Most of the participants (69%) reported being still sober 12 months post-treatment. After treatment (after four SSH chemical aversion treatments, again after five SSH chemical treatments, 30 and 90-days post-discharge), these same patients reported avoidance/aversion to alcohol. Prior to treatment, patients reported craving/desire for alcohol. Patients were recruited as subjects for the University of Washington (UW) brain scan study following SSH admission but before treatment onset. This is the first fMRI study to measure the effects of chemical aversion therapy on alcohol craving-related brain activity. Craving reduction was one of the primary treatment goals.

All patients met DSM4 criteria for alcohol use disorder, were heavy drinkers, and reported craving alcohol pre-treatment. The treatments included five chemical aversion conditioning sessions that associated alcohol cues (and alcohol) with nausea and emesis. In the current study, patients with alcohol use disorder received 10 days of inpatient multi-modal treatments at Schick Shadel Hospital (SSH) of Seattle. Craving was added as one of the defining criteria for alcohol use disorder in DSM5, and craving reduction is becoming an increasingly important treatment goal. Alcohol craving is a powerful desire to drink alcoholic beverages. Alcohol drinking behavior is strongly “learned” via pleasure center activation/reinforcement. 3Human Photonics Lab, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesĪ recent NIH epidemiology study found the lifetime prevalence of alcohol use disorder in the United States to be 29%.2Department of Radiology, Integrated Brain Imaging Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.1Department of Medical Research, Schick Shadel Hospital, Seattle, WA, United States.Richards 2 Robert Nielsen 1 Richard Repass 1 Henriettae Stahlbrandt 2 Hunter G. Further improvement in outcome might result from simultaneous treatment of all household smokers.Ralph L.

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This study demonstrates that the treatment process appears to be free of complications and is associated with successful outcomes in the majority of clients. Of those who returned to a smoking household, 70.2% returned to smoking. Of those returning to a nonsmoking home, 61.4% of the men and 60.2% of the women were successful. The factor most predictive of success or failure was whether or not the client returned to a home containing a smoker. Fifty-two percent of all clients achieved their goal of total abstinence from cigarettes since 'graduation' from the program.

The majority (55.7%) of the clients were male. The clients were contacted a mean of 13.7 months after completion of treatment. It also included an educational and counseling component during the initial counter-conditioning phase and a six week support phase with weekly support groups and one counter-conditioning reinforcement treatment in the second week. The treatment program employed five days of aversive counter-conditioning (faradic and 'quick Puff') for various smoking behaviors.

These clients were selected in a random systematic fashion and were contacted by telephone using a structured interview.

A sample of 327 clients was contacted from the total number of 832 clients treated in the year 1985. A follow-up study was conducted at approximately one year posttreatment of a group of clients treated at a commercial stop smoking program (Shick Smoking Centers).

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