Promising treatments for women with comorbid PTSD and substance use disorders

Objective: The authors ’ goal was to com-pare the efficacy of a manualized cogni-tive behavior therapy that addresses both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse (seeking safety) with a manualized cognitive behavior therapy that addresses only substance abuse (re-lapse prevention) and with standard com-munity care for the treatment of comor-bid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder. Method: One hundred seven women from an urban, low-income population who had comorbid PTSD and substance use disorder were randomly assigned t