Trial reportDrug and alcohol dependence2016
Cost-effectiveness analysis of a continuing care intervention for cocaine-dependent adults.
Trial report in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00685659 (Effectiveness of Extended Treatments for Drug Dependence), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of Extended Treatments for Drug Dependence
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Audio-Based Care for Managing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in Adults: A Systematic Review.Medical care · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions for female drug-using offenders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Randomized controlled trial of enhanced telephone monitoring with detoxification patients: 3- and 6-month outcomes.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of telephone monitoring with psychiatry inpatients with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Trial
- Effect of continuing care for people with cocaine dependence on criminal justice sentences.Behavioral sciences & the law · 2018Trial
- Start-Up and Implementation Costs for the Trust Based Relational Intervention.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
- Impact of Continuing Care on Recovery From Substance Use Disorder.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2021Review
- Study protocol the Continuing Care Project: a randomised controlled trial of a continuing care telephone intervention following residential substance dependence treatment.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Telehealth interventions to reduce alcohol use in men with HIV who have sex with men: Protocol for a factorial randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2019Article
- Interventions for drug-using offenders with co-occurring mental health problems.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Review
- Longitudinal Cost of Services in a Homeless Sample with Cocaine Use Disorder.Journal of social distress and the homeless · 2019Article
- Economic Evaluation of the Juvenile Drug Court/Reclaiming Futures (JDC/RF) Model.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2018Article
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- Handling Missing Data in Within-Trial Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Review with Future Recommendations.PharmacoEconomics - open · 2017Review
- A SMART data analysis method for constructing adaptive treatment strategies for substance use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionThe study conducts a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of a continuing care Telephone Monitoring and Counseling (TMC) intervention for adults diagnosed with cocaine dependence. Participants were randomly assigned to a control condition of intensive outpatient treatment only (treatment-as-usual, or TAU; N=108), or to one of two treatment conditions featuring TMC (N=106) and TMC plus incentives (TMC-plus; N=107). Follow-up assessments were conducted over a 2-year period.
methodsIntervention and client costs were collected with the program and client versions of the Drug Abuse Treatment Cost Analysis Program (DATCAP). Effectiveness was measured as the number of days abstinent during follow-up. Secondary analyses consider alternative measures of effectiveness and the reduced societal costs of physical and mental health problems and criminal justice involvement.
resultsFrom the societal perspective, TMC dominates both TAU and TMC-plus as a cost-effective and cost-saving intervention. Results varied by substance-using status, however, with the subgroup of participants in TMC-plus that were using drugs at intake and early in treatment having the greatest number of days of abstinence and generating similar savings during follow-up than the TMC subgroup using drugs at intake.
conclusionsTelephone monitoring and counseling appears to be a cost-effective and potentially cost-saving strategy for reducing substance use among chronic substance users. Providing client incentives added to total intervention costs but did not improve overall effectiveness. CLINICAL
trial registrationClinical Trials.gov Number: NCT00685659.
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