Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment
A therapeutic workplace for the long-term treatment of drug addiction and unemployment: eight-year outcomes of a social business intervention.
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00249457 (A Therapeutic Workplace for Drug Abusers), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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A Therapeutic Workplace for Drug Abusers
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review on use of health incentives in U.S. to change maternal health behavior.Preventive medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Abstinence-contingent wage supplements to promote drug abstinence and employment: Post-intervention outcomes.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Trial
- Abstinence-contingent wage supplements to promote drug abstinence and employment: a randomised controlled trial.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2020Trial
- The effects of the therapeutic workplace and heavy alcohol use on homelessness among homeless alcohol-dependent adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Trial
- Interventions for opioid use disorder during the first year postpartum: A systematic review.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Recovery support services as part of the continuum of care for alcohol or drug use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Contingency management as a maintenance intervention in the long-term treatment of substance use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024Article
- Behavior change, health, and health disparities 2023: Contingency management for treating substance use disorders and promoting health in vulnerable populations.Preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Characterization of operant social interaction in rats: effects of access duration, effort, peer familiarity, housing conditions, and choice between social interaction vs. food or remifentanil.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- The protective effect of operant social reward on cocaine self-administration, choice, and relapse is dependent on delay and effort for the social reward.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Factors modulating the incubation of drug and non-drug craving and their clinical implications.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Misalignment of Stakeholder Incentives in the Opioid Crisis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Effects of time-based administration of abstinence reinforcement targeting opiate and cocaine use.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2020Article
- Working Conditions in Social Firms and Health Promotion Interventions in Relation to Employees' Health and Work-Related Outcomes-A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Abstinence-dependent dissociable central amygdala microcircuits control drug craving.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Editorial: Community-Based Outreach Treatment for Addictions and Concomitant Disorders: Time for a Change of Paradigm.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- The Association between Living Status Transitions, Behavior Changes and Family Relationship Improvement among Methadone Maintenance Treatment Participants in Guangdong, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Operant Social Reward Decreases Incubation of Heroin Craving in Male and Female Rats.Biological psychiatry · 2019Article
- The Utility of Operant Conditioning to Address Poverty and Drug Addiction.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- From Lab Bench to Park Bench: How Behavioral Science Affects the Field of Substance Abuse.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
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Abstract
This study evaluated the long-term effects of a therapeutic workplace social business on drug abstinence and employment. Pregnant and postpartum women (N = 40) enrolled in methadone treatment were randomly assigned to a therapeutic workplace or usual care control group. Therapeutic workplace participants could work weekdays in training and then as employees of a social business, but were required to provide drug-free urine samples to work and maintain maximum pay. Three-year outcomes were reported previously. This paper reports 4- to 8-year outcomes. During year 4 when the business was open, therapeutic workplace participants provided significantly more cocaine- and opiate-negative urine samples than controls; reported more days employed, higher employment income, and less money spent on drugs. During the 3 years after the business closed, therapeutic workplace participants only reported higher income than controls. A therapeutic workplace social business can maintain long-term abstinence and employment, but additional intervention may be required to sustain effects.
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