Impact of a trauma intervention on reducing dropout from substance use disorder treatment.

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness (in terms of retention) of an intervention aimed at treating the consequences of lifetime physical and/or sexual abuse among patients who are also seeking substance use disorder treatment (SUD-T) in a clinical center. METHOD: = 29) received physical and/or sexual abuse treatment (PSA-T). The main variable related to SUD-T success (therapeutic discharge after completing the 40 outpatient sessions or 12 inpatients months and maintained abstinence) was the completion of PSA-T. CONCLUSIONS: The completion of this trauma-centred treatment improved the retention rate of SUD-T in patients with histories of physical and/or sexual abuse. This is a promising result because of the high SUD-T dropout rate shown by patients with victimization. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).