The Treatment Effectiveness Assessment (TEA)

Correspondence: Walter Ling Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Tel +1 310 267 5888 Fax +1 310 312 0552 Email [email protected] Dear editor We have been surprised and gratified by the readers’ responses to our article, The Treatment Effectiveness Assessment (TEA): an efficient, patient-centered instrument for evaluating progress in recovery from addiction, which was published in December 2012. In the six months since that time, we have received numerous questions and observations about the article, and about the TEA instrument. Respondents were clinicians: physicians, counselors, therapists, nurses; as well as administrators and policy makers. The comments below respond to several of the frequently asked questions and issues.