Overcoming Addictions Study

We are looking for people who are new to SMART Recovery to participate in a randomized clinical trial of our new program, Overcoming Addictions. You may benefit in two ways: 1. You may learn how to achieve and maintain abstinence from drinking and 2. you may get support from others in SMART Recovery that could help with your recovery. We will also reimburse you up to $120 for your time to collect outcome data for the study.

Here is the Informed Consent

Here are the inclusion and exclusion criteria:

Inclusion criteria
1. Living in the U.S. (a requirement of our funding source, NIAAA).
2. Minimum age 18.
3. You have been drinking heavily in the previous 90 days.
4. Your AUDIT score is 8 or more.
5. You are new to SMART Recovery (i.e., just joining or joined within the last 4 weeks).
6. You have a computer at home with Internet access.
7. Your primary focus on abstaining from drinking.
8. You could attend online or face-to-face SMART Recovery® meetings.

Exclusion criteria.
1. Court mandated 1st time DWI offenders.
2. Current diagnosis of drug dependence or if you consider yourself to be drug dependent.
3. Current evidence of uncontrolled psychosis or bipolar disorder (based on a screening we'll give you).
4. Evidence of significant cognitive impairment from brain dysfunction.
5. English reading level below the 8th grade.
6. Unwilling or unable to be available for 3 and 6 month post-baseline assessments.
7. Unwilling or unable to provide one Significant Other (SO) for corroboration of participant’s self-report of drinking and drug use (if any).

If you're interested in participating, give us a call at 505.345.6100 (and hit ext. 11 if you get the outgoing voice mail because all lines are busy). We're in Albuquerque NM on Mountain time zone. You can also email us and we can call you to get you started. Please include your phone number, time zone, and a good time for us to call you back. If you'd like to see our staff, click here.

Click here to download a pdf copy of this page.

If you'd like a preview of the Overcoming Addictions web course, click on the links below. Please be patient though as these are big files.

1. Introduction
2. Motivation
3. Dealing with Urges
4. Managing Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
5. Lifestyle Balance