This study assessed whether contingent incentives can be used to reinforce cocaine
abstinence in dependent outpatients. Seventy cocaine-dependent outpatients were …

This study evaluated a novel drug abuse treatment, the Therapeutic Workplace. In this
treatment, patients are paid to perform jobs or to participate in job training. Salary is linked to …

Employment is commonly upheld as an important outcome of addiction treatment. To
explore this attribution, we assessed whether treatment enrollment predicts employment …

High‐magnitude and long‐duration abstinence reinforcement can promote drug abstinence
but can be difficult to finance. Employment may be a vehicle for arranging high‐magnitude …

In 1996 welfare reform legislation transformed income assistance for needy families by
imposing work requirements, time-limited benefits, and explicit provisions allowing states to …

Abstract From the Works Progress Administration of the New Deal to the Job Corps of the
Great Society era, employment programs have been advanced to fight poverty and social …

Employment is associated with improved treatment outcome for opioid-dependent
outpatients receiving methadone (eg, Platt,). Opioid-dependent individuals typically enter …

This article describes a Web-based therapeutic workplace intervention designed to promote
heroin and cocaine abstinence and train and employ participants as data entry operators …

Historically, research on opioid use during pregnancy has occurred in urban settings and it
is unclear how urban and rural populations compare. We examined socio-demographic and …

Rationale: Recent studies have shown that non-drug alternative reinforcers reduce drug self-
administration. A goal of the present study was to explore factors such as magnitude of the …