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Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback in Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment

Strategies are needed to improve adolescent substance abuse treatment outcomes. For example, during outpatient substance abuse treatment, up to 80% of adolescents continue to use. Following residential substance abuse treatment, 88% of adolescents relapse within 6 months. Psychosocial stress plays an important role in the maintenance of substance use and also in relapse. A study…

Where Published: Global Advances Health Med. 2013

Authors: Chris Thurstone, M.D., and Travis Lajoie

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