Meyer, Agnes; Wapp, Manuela; Strik, Werner; Moggi, Franz (2014). Association Between Drinking Goal and Alcohol Use One Year After Residential Treatment: A Multicenter Study. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 33(3), pp. 234-242. Routledge 10.1080/10550887.2014.950025
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This study examined whether patients’ drinking goals at admission to and discharge from 12 residential alcohol use disorder treatment programs were associated with alcohol-related outcomes at 1-year follow-up. Detoxified patients (N D 289) completed assessments at admission, after treatment, and at 1-year follow-up. Drinking goals of abstinence, conditional abstinence (in principle abstinence but potential occurrence of lapses or drinking, when urges
are strong), and controlled drinking changed during treatment and predicted the 1-year follow-up outcomes (abstinence, number of standard drinks, and number of days to the first alcohol use). Goals at discharge had a better predictive value. The goal of abstinence at discharge had better outcomes than conditional abstinence; the poorest had controlled drinking.