{"id":10219,"date":"2020-07-29T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T08:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T08:21:57","slug":"ptsd-therapy-doesnt-trigger-drug-relapse-in-addiction-patients-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10219","title":{"rendered":"PTSD Therapy Doesn’t Trigger Drug Relapse in Addiction Patients: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MONDAY, July 27, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n

Talk therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a> (PTSD<\/a>) doesn’t appear to increase addiction<\/a> treatment patients’ risk of relapse, a small new study says.<\/p>\n

Roughly a quarter of people with drug or alcohol<\/a> use disorders also have PTSD<\/a>, typically caused by a traumatic or stressful life event such as combat or rape<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cognitive behavioral therapy<\/a> is the leading PTSD<\/a> treatment, but some providers are reluctant to use it with addiction<\/a> patients. The concern is that thinking and talking about traumatic events may cause a drug or alcohol<\/a> relapse.<\/p>\n

But this study debunked that notion, showing that PTSD<\/a> severity and emotional problems decreased after the first therapy session.<\/p>\n

“Now that we have evidence that treating PTSD won’t impact recovery, patients can request therapy, and mental health<\/a> providers have a duty to make it available,” said study author Jessica Peirce, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

For the study, her team assessed changes in 44 patients’ cravings for opioids or other drugs<\/a>, self-reported days of drug use<\/a>, and mental health<\/a> before and after starting talk therapy.<\/p>\n

The researchers found no increase in drug use<\/a> or in reported instances of stress<\/a> after therapy sessions to treat PTSD. By the ninth therapy session, PTSD severity scores had dropped by 54% on average.<\/p>\n

“There is a lot more resilience within this population than many health care providers give them credit for, and not offering the proper treatment is doing patients a disservice,” Peirce said in a Hopkins news release.<\/p>\n

The findings were recently published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

This study was an outgrowth of a larger project by Peirce and her colleagues on how to get often-reluctant addiction treatment patients to undergo talk therapy for PTSD.<\/p>\n

— Robert Preidt<\/p>\n

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\n SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Medicine, news release, July 20, 2020 \n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n