Overcoming Addiction

Description:

Overcoming Addiction, now available through subscription to 'Check-up and Choices', is a self-directed program consisting of five modules. These modules are: 1) Getting started 2) Building and Maintaining Motivation for Change, 3) Dealing with urges, 4) Self-managing thoughts, behaviours, and feelings, and 5) Lifestyle balance for preventing relapse. Modules provide videos, exercises, and tracking tools to guide users.

Service URL:

https://checkupandchoices.com/

Agency Responsible:

Check-up and Choices.

Details

Format:

Website.

Intervention Type:

Psychological – CBT. Motivation, dealing with urges, managing thoughts, feelings and behaviours, developing a balanced lifestyle

Course Length:

Moderate (2-5 modules).

Support Option:

Program guidance.

Target Audience

Primary Category:

Substance abuse.

Target Audience:

Adult.

Language:

English.

Access

Fee:

Fee-based.

Access:

Closed: Fee required.

Contact Details:

Contact form at: https://checkupandchoices.com/about-us/

Research evidence

Research Trials:

1

Research RCTs:

0

Outcome Summary:

A randomised (but not controlled) trial was conducted, randomising participants to either face-to-face 'SMART Recovery' meetings alone (n=86), or SMART Recovery meetings plus the Overcoming Addictions website (n=102). No differences were observed between face-to-face meetings alone and face-to-face meetings plus the Overcoming Addiction website, although participants in both groups showed significant improvements from baseline to follow-up (3- and 6-months).

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Research paper citations

Campbell, W. and R. K. Hester (2016). "Overcoming Addictions, a Web-Based Application, and SMART Recovery, an Online and In-Person Mutual Help Group for Problem Drinkers, Part 2: Six-Month Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial and Qualitative Feedback From Participants."  18(10): e262.