Trial reportAddiction (Abingdon, England)2013
Cost-effectiveness analysis of Recovery Management Checkups (RMC) for adults with chronic substance use disorders: evidence from a 4-year randomized trial.
Trial report in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Evidence Base on Outpatient Behavioral Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use, Update 2018-2023: Current Status, Best Practices, and Opportunities for Advancing the Science.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- Using recovery management checkups for primary care to improve linkage to alcohol and other drug use treatment: a randomized controlled trial three month findings.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Trial
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of a continuing care intervention for cocaine-dependent adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Trial
- Recovery support services as part of the continuum of care for alcohol or drug use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Ridesharing and substance use disorder treatment.Journal of health economics · 2025Article
- Time-varying effect modeling with intensive longitudinal data: Examining dynamic links among craving, affect, self-efficacy and substance use during addiction recovery.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
- A randomized controlled trial of recovery management checkups for primary care patients: Twelve-month results.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Relationship-Oriented Recovery System for Youth (RORSY): Clinical Protocol for Transition-Age Youth with Opioid Use Disorders.HSOA journal of addiction & addictive disorders · 2023Article
- Impact of Continuing Care on Recovery From Substance Use Disorder.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2021Review
- The effects of specialized probation and recovery management checkups (RMCs) on treatment participation, substance use, HIV risk behaviors, and recidivism among female offenders: main findings of a 3-year experiment using subject by intervention interaction analysis.Journal of experimental criminology · 2017Article
- Economic Evaluation Enhances Public Health Decision Making.Frontiers in public health · 2015Review
- Do Drug-Dependent Patients Attending Alcoholics Anonymous Rather than Narcotics Anonymous Do As Well? A Prospective, Lagged, Matching Analysis.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2014Article
- Beyond bricks and mortar: recent research on substance use disorder recovery management.Current psychiatry reports · 2014Review
- The need and opportunity to expand substance use disorder treatment in school-based settings.Advances in school mental health promotion · 2014Article
- Economic Costs of a Postrelease Intervention for Incarcerated Female Substance Abusers: Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (RMC-WO).Journal of offender rehabilitationArticle
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Abstract
aimsThis study performs the first cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of Recovery Management Checkups (RMC) for adults with chronic substance use disorders.
designCost-effectiveness analysis of a randomized clinical trial of RMC. Participants were assigned randomly to a control condition of outcome monitoring (OM-only) or the experimental condition OM-plus-RMC, with quarterly follow-up for 4 years.
settingParticipants were recruited from the largest central intake unit for substance abuse treatment in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
participantsA total of 446 participants who were 38 years old on average, 54% male, and predominantly African American (85%). MEASUREMENTS: Data on the quarterly cost per participant come from a previous study of OM and RMC intervention costs. Effectiveness is measured as the number of days of abstinence and number of substance use-related problems.
findingsOver the 4-year trial, OM-plus-RMC cost on average $2184 more than OM-only (P < 0.01). Participants in OM-plus-RMC averaged 1026 days abstinent and had 89 substance use-related problems. OM-only averaged 932 days abstinent and reported 126 substance use-related problems. Mean differences for both effectiveness measures were statistically significant (P < 0.01). The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for OM-plus-RMC was $23.38 per day abstinent and $59.51 per reduced substance-related problem. When additional costs to society were factored into the analysis, OM-plus-RMC was less costly and more effective than OM-only.
conclusionsRecovery Management Checkups are a cost-effective and potentially cost-saving strategy for promoting abstinence and reducing substance use-related problems among chronic substance users.
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