Best Marijuana Addiction Treatment?
A study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institutes of Health indicates that marijuana treatment may be most effective when both incentives and behavioral therapy are used. A follow-up a year after the treatments were given found that the incentive only group had a 17% abstinence rate, the therapy group 23%, and the group that had both was 37% abstinent. The researchers pointed out that the study involved mostly white males, which may undermine the universality of the test.