ERIC EJ776876: A Randomized Trial of Employment pdf

ERIC EJ776876: A Randomized Trial of Employment

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High-magnitude and long-duration abstinence reinforcement can promote drug abstinence but can be difficult to finance. Employment may be a vehicle for arranging high-magnitude and long-duration abstinence reinforcement. This study determined if employment-based abstinence reinforcement could increase cocaine abstinence in adults who inject drugs and use cocaine during methadone treatment. Participants could work 4 hours every weekday in a workplace where they could earn about $10.00 per hour in vouchers; they were required to provide routine urine samples. Participants who attended the workplace and provided cocaine-positive urine samples during the initial 4 weeks were invited to work 26 weeks and were randomly assigned to an abstinence-and-work (n = 28) or work-only (n = 28) group. Abstinence-and-work participants had to provide urine samples showing cocaine abstinence to work and maintain maximum pay. Work-only participants could work independent of their urinalysis results. Abstinence-and-work participants provided more (p = 0.004; OR = 5.80, 95% CI = 2.03-16.56) cocaine-negative urine samples (29%) than did work-only participants (10%).

Employment-based abstinence reinforcement can increase cocaine abstinence. (Contains 4 tables and 5 figures

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2007
• Year: 2007
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Reinforcement, Educational Vouchers, Cocaine, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, Employment, Drug Use Testing, Drug Addiction, Outcomes of Treatment, Silverman, Kenneth, Wong, Conrad J., Needham, Mick, Diemer, Karly N., Knealing, Todd, Crone-Todd, Darlene, Fingerhood, Michael, Nuzzo, Paul, Kolodner, Kenneth

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