TY - JOUR
T1 - Employment-based abstinence reinforcement promotes opiate and cocaine abstinence in out-of-treatment injection drug users
AU - Holtyn, August F.
AU - Koffarnus, Mikhail N.
AU - DeFulio, Anthony
AU - Sigurdsson, Sigurdur O.
AU - Strain, Eric C.
AU - Schwartz, Robert P.
AU - Silverman, Kenneth
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PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - We examined the use of employment-based abstinence reinforcement in out-of-treatment injection drug users, in this secondary analysis of a previously reported trial. Participants (N = 33) could work in the therapeutic workplace, a model employment-based program for drug addiction, for 30 weeks and could earn approximately $10 per hr. During a 4-week induction, participants only had to work to earn pay. After induction, access to the workplace was contingent on enrollment in methadone treatment. After participants met the methadone contingency for 3 weeks, they had to provide opiate-negative urine samples to maintain maximum pay. After participants met those contingencies for 3 weeks, they had to provide opiate- and cocaine-negative urine samples to maintain maximum pay. The percentage of drug-negative urine samples remained stable until the abstinence reinforcement contingency for each drug was applied. The percentage of opiate- and cocaine-negative urine samples increased abruptly and significantly after the opiate- and cocaine-abstinence contingencies, respectively, were applied. These results demonstrate that the sequential administration of employment-based abstinence reinforcement can increase opiate and cocaine abstinence among out-of-treatment injection drug users.
AB - We examined the use of employment-based abstinence reinforcement in out-of-treatment injection drug users, in this secondary analysis of a previously reported trial. Participants (N = 33) could work in the therapeutic workplace, a model employment-based program for drug addiction, for 30 weeks and could earn approximately $10 per hr. During a 4-week induction, participants only had to work to earn pay. After induction, access to the workplace was contingent on enrollment in methadone treatment. After participants met the methadone contingency for 3 weeks, they had to provide opiate-negative urine samples to maintain maximum pay. After participants met those contingencies for 3 weeks, they had to provide opiate- and cocaine-negative urine samples to maintain maximum pay. The percentage of drug-negative urine samples remained stable until the abstinence reinforcement contingency for each drug was applied. The percentage of opiate- and cocaine-negative urine samples increased abruptly and significantly after the opiate- and cocaine-abstinence contingencies, respectively, were applied. These results demonstrate that the sequential administration of employment-based abstinence reinforcement can increase opiate and cocaine abstinence among out-of-treatment injection drug users.
KW - abstinence reinforcement
KW - cocaine addiction
KW - contingency management
KW - employment
KW - opiate addiction
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U2 - 10.1002/jaba.158
DO - 10.1002/jaba.158
M3 - Article
C2 - 25292399
AN - SCOPUS:85027917256
SN - 0021-8855
VL - 47
SP - 681
EP - 693
JO - Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
JF - Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
IS - 4
ER -
