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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2010 Mar 9;110(1-2):44–54. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2010.02.003

Table 5.

Treatment Costs by Treatment Condition

CBOP
 MET/CBT7
Costs No ACC (n = 80) ACC (n = 80) No ACC (n = 79) ACC (n = 81)
Average cost per episodea $3,246.66 $5,303.14 $1,143.89 $3,665.95
Average cost per day abstinentb $14.00 $19.37 $4.25 $14.97
Average cost per person in recovery at 12 monthsc $11,131.42 $13,945.28 $2,619.87 $12,113.57

Note. CBOP/UCC = Chestnut Bloomington Outpatient with usual continuing care; CBOP = Chestnut Bloomington outpatient; MET/CBT7 = Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavior Therapy - 7 sessions; ACC = Assertive Continuing Care. All data and calculations were performed with the DATCAP (www.DATCAP.com). All costs are reported in 2007 dollars. The original DATCAP estimates were prorated as follows: (total hours of service received/divided by the average hours of all clients in the same condition.

a

Average cost per episode = average weekly cost per client × mean length of stay in weeks.

b

Average cost per day abstinent = episode cost/total days abstinent.

c

Average cost per person in recovery at 12 months = episode cost/the percent of clients in the same condition in recovery at 12 months.