Type of treatment settings:
Outpatient treatment
Intensive outpatient treatment and partial hospitalization
Residential/inpatient treatment
Medically managed intensive inpatient treatment
(Winters, Tanner-Smith, Bresani, & Meyers, 2014)
Treatment strategies with behavioral approach:
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Contingency management
Motivational enhancement therapy
Twelve step facilitation therapy
(Winters, Tanner-Smith, Bresani, & Meyers, 2014)
Family-based approaches:
Strategic family therapy
Family behavior therapy
Functional family therapy
(Winters, Tanner-Smith, Bresani, & Meyers, 2014)
Recovery support groups:
Assertive continuing care
Peer recovery support services
Twelve-step and mutual help groups
Recovery high schools
(Winters, Tanner-Smith, Bresani, & Meyers, 2014)
Pharmacotherapy:
There are no medications that are currently approved to treat adolescent addiction. Reports indicate that physicians will sometimes prescribed addiction treatment medications to older adults, but it varies (Winters, Botzet, Fahnhorst, Stinchfield, & Koskey, 2016). There are no current treatments to treat addiction to cocaine, cannabis, and methamphetamine in any age group (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2014).
References
National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2014). Principles of adolescent substance use disorder treatment: A research-based guide. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/
publications/principles-adolescent-substance-use-disorder-treatment-research-based-guide
Winters, K., Tanner-Smith, E., Bresani, E., & Meyers, K. (2014). Current advances in the treatment of adolescent drug use. Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 199. doi:10.2147/ahmt.s48053
Winters, K. C., Botzet, A. M., Fahnhorst, T., Stinchfield, R., & Koskey, R. (2016). Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment: A Review of Evidence-Based Research. Adolescent Substance Abuse, 73-96. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09732-9_4