Women's Treatment and Early Recovery

MBRP-W is delivered in 12 bi-weekly 80-minute group sessions. Facilitators with previous experience in MBSR and trained in MBRP-W will deliver each group. Each session has a central theme and is divided into five segments consisting of: (a) a welcome meditation or other mindfulness practice, (b) a review of session objectives, (c) a brief didactic psycho-educational presentation and discussion based on the session's theme, (d) experiential and formal meditation or other practices, and (e) readings and assignments for the next class. Participants are expected to learn skill building techniques to reducing stress using mindfulness-based principles to complement their recovery treatment program.

B\&R is delivered in 12 bi-weekly 80-minute group sessions delivered by two trained interventionists. The B\&R group will receive didactic education on the neurobiology of addiction. B\&R contains no information on behavior change, stress reduction, or mindfulness-based or relapse-related content. The intervention was developed over three years with a population similar to those in the study and with input from patients and experts on neurobiology of addiction. Topics include: (1) brain structures and functions related to addiction, (2) effects of various types of substances on the brain, and (3) rewarding effects and how these lead to addiction. Participants are expected to gain knowledge pertaining to the effects of drugs on the brain.