Abstract
This study of continuing care for substance dependent patients compared a telephone-based monitoring and brief counseling intervention (TEL) with 2 face-to-face interventions, relapse prevention (RP) and standard 12-step group counseling (STND). The participants were graduates of intensive outpatient programs who had current dependence on alcohol and/or cocaine. Self-report, collateral, and biological measures of alcohol and cocaine use were obtained over a 12-month follow-up. The treatment groups did not differ on abstinence-related outcomes in the complete sample (
N
= 359) or on cocaine use outcomes in participants with cocaine dependence (
n
= 268). However, in participants with alcohol dependence only (
n
= 91), TEL produced better alcohol use outcomes than STND on all measures examined and better outcomes than RP on some of the measures.