All 30 clients who received standard inpatient treatment for alcohol abuse during 1992-93 in the
north Tasmanian health region were randomly assigned to an additional social support intervention, to a self monitoring control intervention, or to a no-additional-treatment control group.
Results indicated that artificially created social support was ineffective in influencing consumption beyond what was produced by a combination of standard outpatient follow-up and simple
self-monitoring. However, the degree of social support available from the most supportive
individual in the drinker's naturally occurring social network was the preeminent predictor of
drinking over a 3-month interval. Contrary to the predictions of one cognitive-behavioral
approach to relapse prevention, pretreatment measures of client self-efficacy were not associated
with drinking at posttreatment.
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