TY - JOUR
AU - Cooper, Lyle
AB - PRACTICE FORUM Combined Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy with Older Adult Drug and Alcohol Abusers Lyle Cooper ore than 2.5 million older Americans This increase in substance abuse among the struggle with alcohol abuse and its as- older adult population coupled with the high co- sociated medical and social conse- morbidity of substance misuse with mental and quences. This number is expected to double to 5 physical health disorders presents many challenges million by 2020 (Gfoerer, Penne, Pemberton, & to the current treatment system. The Older Adult Folsom, 2003). Marijuana is the most commonly Healthy Living Program (HeLP) was developed used illicit drug among older people followed by to address these challenges. This article describes the nonmedical use of prescription drugs (Bartles, both the barriers to older adult treatment effec- Blow, Brockmann, & Van Citters, 2005). The tiveness and the means by which HeLP over- number of marijuana users age 50 and over is ex- comes these barriers. pected to grow from the current 719,000 to 3.3 million by 2020. It is estimated that one in four BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE OLDER ADULT older adults use psychotropic drugs with abuse TREATMENT potential and that nonmedical use of such drugs Older 
TI - Combined Motivational Interviewing and CognitiveBehavioral Therapy with Older Adult Drug and Alcohol Abusers
JF - Health & Social Work
DO - 10.1093/hsw/hls023
DA - 2012-08-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/combined-motivational-interviewing-and-cognitivebehavioral-therapy-HC5ZbO8N82
SP - 173
EP - 179
VL - 37
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -