the rehabilitation and mainnce progra themselves can involve medication, such as disulfiram or antabuse used for a small percentage of patients, psychological treatment, such as psychotherapy and desensitization, and by far the most widely used, sociocultul treatments, such as groups like alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous and drug-free halfway houses. often, treatment involves ther an in or outpatient package including all three kinds of care. if a patient comes in with a depression, and you only offer a self-heloup but don't address that depression directly, you may be missing part of your effectiveness. similarly, if he has no drug-free network of friends, everybody knows uses, and you don't refer him to a drug-free network, you may also be missg the boat. look at the patient as an individual with a s of problems, and then match your interventions to his problems. dr. childress is talking aut a recent development called treatment matching. what our research shows, anthe research of many other pele, that substance abusers are very diffent. we'rnot just talking about heroindd