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SAMHSA News Bulletin

Date: 2/21/2007
Media Contact: SAMHSA Press Office
Telephone: 240-276-2130

SAMHSA Updates Guidance on Outpatient Treatment for Substance Abuse

Updated guidance to help clinicians and administrators improve outpatient treatment for substance abuse was recently released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in two new Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs).  

TIP 46, Substance Abuse: Administrative Issues in Outpatient Treatment, and its companion text, TIP 47, Substance Abuse: Clinical Issues in Intensive Outpatient Treatment, address the challenges in the growth of outpatient treatment.

Today’s directors of outpatient programs must confront serious management issues, such as their own need for training in administrative skills and counselor turnover. TIP 46 focuses on the core staffing and retention issues, while exploring managing staff stress and supporting career development. Also addressed are program growth and promotion, expanding cultural diversity, and building financial stability.

TIP 47, aimed at clinicians, presents 14 guiding principles of intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) and supporting research. It explores how IOT fits in the continuum of care and what services a program should provide. The TIP also confronts clinical issues, describes approaches in detail, and addresses the needs of diverse populations.

The TIP series is a set of best practice guides for health care and substance abuse treatment providers. TIPs are produced by nonfederal consensus panels composed of clinical, educational, research and administrative experts. These two new TIPs update the guidance provided in TIP 8, Intensive Outpatient Treatment for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, which was published in 1994 before the expansion of this treatment approach to a wider variety of clients and the added focus on cost containment through managed care.

TIP 46 is available on the Web at http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/prevline/pdfs/tip46small.pdf and TIP 47 at http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/prevline/pdfs/TIP_47.pdf. Copies may be obtained free of charge by calling SAMHSA’s Health Information Network at 1-877-SAMHSA-7 (1-877-726-4727). Request inventory number BKD545 for TIP 46 and BKD551 for TIP 47. For related publications and information, visit http://www.samhsa.gov/.

SAMHSA is a public health agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency is responsible for improving the accountability, capacity and effectiveness of the nation's substance abuse prevention, addictions treatment, and mental health services delivery system.


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