Trial reportPreventive medicine2014
The therapeutic workplace to promote treatment engagement and drug abstinence in out-of-treatment injection drug users: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Preventive medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01416584 (A Bridge to Treatment), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Bridge to Treatment: The Therapeutic Workplace and Methadone Treatment
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Comparison of Treatments for Cocaine Use Disorder Among Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2021Pooled it
- A review of the literature on contingency management in the treatment of substance use disorders, 2009-2014.Preventive medicine · 2016Pooled it
- Abstinence-contingent wage supplements to promote drug abstinence and employment: a randomised controlled trial.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2020Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Ethyl Glucuronide-Based Contingency Management for Outpatients With Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders and Serious Mental Illness.The American journal of psychiatry · 2017Trial
- Employment-based abstinence reinforcement promotes opiate and cocaine abstinence in out-of-treatment injection drug users.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2014Trial
- A scoping review of interventions addressing social determinants of health and their influence on opioid use disorder outcomes.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Discounting of employment opportunities with urine drug testing requirements in opioid users enrolled in the Therapeutic Workplace.Journal of vocational rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Risky Sexual Practices, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Motivations, and Mental Health among Heterosexual Women and Men Who Practice Sexualized Drug Use in Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Effects of time-based administration of abstinence reinforcement targeting opiate and cocaine use.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2020Article
- The Utility of Operant Conditioning to Address Poverty and Drug Addiction.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- Behavior analysts in the war on poverty: Developing an operant antipoverty program.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2018Review
- Behavioral factors predicting response to employment-based reinforcement of cocaine abstinence in methadone patients.Translational issues in psychological science · 2016Article
- The Therapeutic Utility of Employment in Treating Drug Addiction: Science to Application.Translational issues in psychological science · 2016Article
- Effects of pay resets following drug use on attendance and hours worked in a therapeutic workplace.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2016Article
- Novel interventions to prevent HIV and HCV among persons who inject drugs.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2015Review
- Behavior change, health, and health disparities: an introduction.Preventive medicine · 2014Article
- Reduction of classroom noise levels using group contingencies.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveDetermine if employment-based reinforcement can increase methadone treatment engagement and drug abstinence in out-of-treatment injection drug users.
methodThis study was conducted from 2008 to 2012 in a therapeutic workplace in Baltimore, MD. After a 4-week induction, participants (N=98) could work and earn pay for 26 weeks and were randomly assigned to Work Reinforcement, Methadone & Work Reinforcement, and Abstinence, Methadone & Work Reinforcement conditions. Work Reinforcement participants had to work to earn pay. Methadone & Work Reinforcement and Abstinence, Methadone, & Work Reinforcement participants had to enroll in methadone treatment to work and maximize pay. Abstinence, Methadone, & Work Reinforcement participants had to provide opiate- and cocaine-negative urine samples to maximize pay.
resultsMost participants (92%) enrolled in methadone treatment during induction. Drug abstinence increased as a graded function of the addition of the methadone and abstinence contingencies. Abstinence, Methadone & Work Reinforcement participants provided significantly more urine samples negative for opiates (75% versus 54%) and cocaine (57% versus 32%) than Work Reinforcement participants. Methadone & Work Reinforcement participants provided significantly more cocaine-negative samples than Work Reinforcement participants (55% versus 32%).
conclusionThe therapeutic workplace can promote drug abstinence in out-of-treatment injection drug users. Clinical trial registration number: NCT01416584.
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