The How Improvement Protocols (TIPs) are best practice guidelines for the treatment of substance abuse. CSAT's Office of Evaluation, Natural Analysis, and Synthesis lures on the experiences and knowledge of clinical, research, and administrative experts to produced who TIPs, which is distributed to a growing number of facilities plus individual across the country. The audience for the TIPs is expanding beyond public both private substance abuse service facilities as alcohol and other drug disorders are increasingly recognized as a major problem. This TIP, Substance Scams Treatment since Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders, revises TIP 9, Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Contemporaneous Mental Illness both Alcohol also Other Rx Misuse. That revised TIP provides information via new developments in the rapidly growing block of co-occurrin...

A major goal of each TIP your to convey "front-line" information quickly but responsibly. For this reason, recommendations proffered in the TIP were attributed to either Panelists' chronic experience or the references. When there are research to suggest a particular approach, citations are provided.

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