The Use of Urine Toxicology to Enhance Patient Control of Take-Home Doses in Methadone Maintenance: Effects on Reducing Illicit Drug Use

Autor: Elizabeth A. Wells, Andrew J. Saxon, Viki V. Stanton, Donald A. Calsyn
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Addiction Research. 6:203-214
ISSN: 1058-6989
DOI: 10.3109/16066359808993303
Popis: The present study sought to compare, in a pre-post (AB) design, the efficacy of 2 contingency management programs utilizing take-home doses as reinforcers of abstinence for methadone maintenance patients. The baseline schedule (A) imposed more restrictions on availability of take-home doses than did the experimental schedule (B) which provided take-home doses for any patients who supplied negative urine toxicology specimens. Weekly urine toxicology profiles of patients (n = 96) were examined for 16 weeks under the baseline schedule and for 16 weeks during the experimental schedule. Mean number of consecutive weeks of negative specimens was 11.51 (sd = 4.68) during the baseline period and increased to 12.55 (sd = 4.44) during the experimental period 0 = 2.39, df=95, p
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