Disseminating a treatment program to outpatient addiction treatment agencies in Ontario - A case study

Sixty outpatient addiction treatment agencies in Ontario, Canada, participa ted in a case study exploring the factors related to the adoption of resear ch-evaluated treatment technologies. The agencies received free training in a manual-based brief outpatient treatment program. At a twelve-month follo w-up period, managers were interviewed to assess the proportion of agencies using the treatment package and the factors encouraging or discouraging th eir agencies' use of the program. While the dissemination was a success (49 percent of agencies had used the treatment program and 83 percent had used at least some of the tools), questions remain as to,why some agencies adop ted the treatment package while others did not.