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Fighting addictions, improving lives:
Comprehensive drug rehabilitation with music

Resources

FALCO resources

Various resources are made available here as they emerge over the course of the project.

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Academic publications

Academic publication

Music therapy: Clinical and socioeconomic outcomes and long-term measures in substance use disorder. A systematic review and service user interviews

by Lucia Gassner, Daria Makurat, Thomas Solgård Svendsen, Ilona Bidzan-Bluma, Franziska Magel, Bianka Karshikoff, Aleksander H. Erga, & Łucja Bieleninik
 

Academic publication

Fighting Addictions, improving Lives through COmprehensive drug rehabilitation with music (FALCO): Protocol for an international randomised controlled trial

by Monika Geretsegger, Heidi Marie Kirkeng Meling, Alexandra Savinova, Jörg Assmus, Catherine Lourdes Dy, Trond Stalsberg Mydland, Kenneth Dybdahl, Bjarte Johansen, Stefan Koelsch, Anne Malerbakken, Morten Sommerbakk, Lars Tuastad, Aleksander H. Erga, Jens Hetland, Bianka Karshikoff, Thomas Solgaard Svendsen, Lars Lien, Grethe Emilie Roer, Hans-Andre Røste, Adrian Wangberg Seberg, Asena Umay Koçan, Matthew Pelowski, Frank Scharnowski, Giorgia Silani, Milos Stankovic, David Steyrl, Franziska Magel, Rudolf Maisriml, Oliver Scheibenbogen, Julia Fent, Thomas Stegemann, Lucia Gassner, Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss, Tali Gottfried, Moshe Bensimon, Laura Ferreri, Camilla Figini, Laura Fusar-Poli, Pierluigi Politi, Ilona Bidzan-Bluma, Łucja Bieleninik, Daria Makurat, Kornelia Kester, Estela Camara, Victor Fernández-Dueñas, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Emma Segura, Adrià Vilà-Balló, Silvia Font-Mayolas, Gloria Brugués, Andrea Maestre Cerdeño, Eva Frigola-Capell, Daniel Vega, Marcus Herdener, Boris B. Quednow, & Christian Gold

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Academic publication

Music therapy for people with substance use disorders

by Claire Ghetti, Xi-Jing Chen, Annette K. Brenner, Laurien G. Hakvoort, Lars Lien, Jörg Fachner, & Christian Gold
 

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2022, Issue 5. Art. No.: CD012576

Communication material

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Datasets

Links to openly accessible de-identified curated data will be published here as soon as available.

 

Videos

Watch the video where Christian Gold, project leader of the FALCO project, talks about the project that will investigate and uncover the potential for music activities in drug rehabilitation.

Watch the video about FALCO from our team in Poland. With Polish narration and English subtitles.

A video from our team in Israel, explaining the project in Hebrew:

music notes
Now the drugs don’t work
They only make you worse
The Verve, Lyrics from “The Drugs Don’t Work”
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This work has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). (Contract-Nr. 24.00602)
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