“…These findings are especially noteworthy because the major therapeutic components of the RPMG treatment do not explicitly target substance use whereas the comparison condition, RT, provided an "extra dose" of substance abuse treatment. RPMG is grounded in beliefs that (a) drug abusing women reflect a constellation of problems of which their addiction is only one part; (b) their psychiatric and interpersonal difficulties warrant at least as much therapeutic attention as do issues of abstinence (Brooks & Tseng, 1995;Hawley, Halle, Drasin, & Thomas, 1995;Howard, Beckwith, Espinosa, & Tyler, 1995;Millar & Stermac, 2000;Luthar et al, 1998;Najavits, Sullivan, Schmitz, Weiss, & Lee, 2004); and (c) as this is an "add-on" treatment, the women do, in fact, receive issues of abstinence in their methadone clinics. The results of this study at treatment completion provide some support for the reasoning above, and also resonate with arguments by Brunswick and colleagues (Brunswick, Lewis, & Messeri, 1991;Brunswick, Messeri, & Titus, 1992) that working with drug abusing women on their interpersonal and psychological needs can have substantial spillover effects on their capacities to abstain from drug use.…”