ArticleTranslational issues in psychological science2016
The Therapeutic Utility of Employment in Treating Drug Addiction: Science to Application.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Feasibility and Effects of Digital Interventions to Support People in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Pooled it
- Extended-release injectable naltrexone for opioid use disorder: a systematic review.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2018Pooled it
- Cost and cost-effectiveness of abstinence contingent wage supplements.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Trial
- Being at work improves stress, craving, and mood for people with opioid use disorder: Ecological momentary assessment during a randomized trial of experimental employment in a contingency-management-based therapeutic workplace.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Trial
- Abstinence-contingent wage supplements to promote drug abstinence and employment: Post-intervention outcomes.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Trial
- Factors associated with obtaining employment among opioid use disorder patients enrolled in a therapeutic workplace intervention.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Trial
- Abstinence-contingent wage supplements to promote drug abstinence and employment: a randomised controlled trial.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2020Trial
- Evaluation of a Computer-Based Training Program to Teach Adults at Risk for HIV About Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · 2018Trial
- Predictors of induction onto extended-release naltrexone among unemployed heroin-dependent adults.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2018Trial
- The effects of the therapeutic workplace and heavy alcohol use on homelessness among homeless alcohol-dependent adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Trial
- If you build it, they will stay! Sustaining evidence-based practices for the treatment of substance use disorders through investment in workforce retention.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Recovery support services as part of the continuum of care for alcohol or drug use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Is addiction a brain disease? A plea for agnosticism and heterogeneity.Psychopharmacology · 2022Review
- Treatments, Perceived Stigma, and Employment Outcomes among Substance Abusers in China.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Quality of life during a randomized trial of a therapeutic-workplace intervention for opioid use disorder: Web-based mobile assessments reveal effects of drug abstinence and access to paid work.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2021Article
- Employment outcomes of substance use disorder patients enrolled in a therapeutic workplace intervention for drug abstinence and employment.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Article
- Effects of time-based administration of abstinence reinforcement targeting opiate and cocaine use.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2020Article
- "Chasing the first high": memory sampling in drug choice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Review
- Increased Reinforcer Immediacy can Promote Employment-Seeking in Unemployed Homeless Adults with Alcohol Use Disorder.The Psychological record · 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
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Abstract
Research on a model Therapeutic Workplace has allowed for evaluation of the use of employment in the treatment of drug addiction. Under the Therapeutic Workplace intervention, adults with histories of drug addiction are hired and paid to work. To promote drug abstinence or adherence to addiction medications, participants are required to provide drug-free urine samples or take prescribed addiction medications, respectively, to gain access to the workplace and/or to maintain their maximum rate of pay. Research has shown that the Therapeutic Workplace intervention is effective in promoting and maintaining abstinence from heroin, cocaine and alcohol and in promoting adherence to naltrexone. Three models could be used to implement and maintain employment-based reinforcement in the treatment of drug addiction: A Social Business model, a Cooperative Employer model, and a Wage Supplement model. Under all models, participants initiate abstinence in a training and abstinence initiation phase (Phase 1). Under the Social Business model, Phase 1 graduates are hired as employees in a social business and required to maintain abstinence to maintain employment and/or maximum pay. Under the Cooperative Employer model, cooperating community employers hire graduates of Phase 1 and require them to maintain abstinence to maintain employment and/or maximum pay. Under the Wage Supplement Model, graduates of Phase 1 are offered abstinence-contingent wage supplements if they maintain competitive employment in a community job. Given the severity and persistence of the problem of drug addiction and the lack of treatments that can produce lasting effects, continued development of the Therapeutic Workplace is warranted.
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