Therapy studies
Therapy studies for patients with substance use disorders have a long tradition and date back to the establishment of the professorship for addiction research in 2005. A particular focus is on testing therapy programmes under practical conditions in outpatient care facilities in Germany.
Questions of risk management played a role in the studies to the extent that, although abstinence was justified and recommended as a therapeutic goal, patients with a desire for low- risk consumption were also treated in the studies.
ELDERLY Project (2014 to 2017; ongoing evaluations)
PIs: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bühringer, PD Dr. Silke Behrendt
ELDERLY is an international, multicenter, randomized, single-blind trial study to test two manualized psychotherapy programmes for elderly (60+) individuals with alcohol-related use disorders.
ELDERLY Transfer Project (2017 to 2018)
PIs: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bühringer, PD Dr. Silke Behrendt, Dr. Barbara Braun
The ELDERLY transfer project aimed to dissemination the therapeutic findings from the ELDERLY project, a study on the treatment of older persons (60+) with alcohol use disorders.
CANDIS Project I & II (2004 to 2009)
PIs: Prof. Dr. H.-U. Wittchen, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bühringer, PD. Dr. Eva Hoch
The CANDIS programme is the first behavioural-therapeutic-oriented weaning programme developed and extensively scientifically tested in Germany especially for adolescents (>= 16 years) and adults with problematic cannabis use. The program was tested in Phase I on 122 participants using the CANDIS manual. In Phase II, CANDIS therapy was transferred to routine care in 11 outpatient addiction centres in Germany.
Webseite CANDIS Project: http://www.candis-projekt.de/therapie.html