This volume begins with a chapter that details the conceptual and empirical foundations of
contingency management approaches illustrated in the remainder of the book. The diversity …

Contingency management interventions are perhaps the most exciting development in drug
abuse treatment research in the past 10 years, as this group of treatments has been shown …

The effectiveness and transportability of multisystemic therapy (MST) were examined in a
study that included 118 juvenile offenders meeting DSM-III-R criteria for substance abuse or …

Substance use disorders (SUDs) represent a highly prevalent and costly public health
problem in the United States and most other developed and developing countries. Indeed …

Underutilization of evidence-based treatments for substance abuse represents a
longstanding problem for the field and the public health of our nation. Those who would …

Background Treatment providers have applied contingency management (CM) treatment, an
intervention that often rewards individuals for drug abstinence (ie, ABS CM), to treatment …

Background Substance use and related consequences (eg, impaired driving, injuries,
disease transmission) continue to be major public health concerns. Contingency …

This study empirically examined opinions of treatment providers regarding contingency
management (CM) programs while controlling for experience with a specific efficacious CM …

Very little is known about how reward programs are implemented in real-world substance
use treatment settings and whether training in contingency management (CM), an …

Having established the effectiveness of drug dependency treatment, the next generation of
research will necessitate a focus on treatment structure and process and the systems within …