Study Finds Inpatient Treatment Effective, But Doesn’t Address Outpatient Programs

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Statistic A recently published article from The New England Journal Of Medicine (NEJM) about chemical dependency treatment outcomes has been getting quite a bit of publicity lately in both the business and trade press. The article, "Randomized Trial Of Treatment Options For Alcohol- Abusing Workers" (published in the September 12, 1991 issue of NEJM reports on the results of the study conducted by Harvard’s School Of Public Health which compared the outcomes of alcoholic employees assigned to inpatient chemical dependency treatment programs to the outcomes of similar employees . . .