By Stephen T. Higgins PhD, Kenneth Silverman PhD, Sarah H. Heil PhD, Joseph V. Brady PhD

Well timed and authoritative, this quantity brings jointly prime medical researchers to explain modern functions of contingency administration ideas throughout a variety of substance use issues and sufferer populations. Contingency administration makes use of a method of incentives and disincentives to inspire sufferers to fulfill their remedy pursuits, and has been applied effectively in neighborhood therapy clinics, drug courts, and different settings. that includes illustrative case fabric, the e-book offers a cogent empirical motive and functional concepts for concentrating on significant medicinal drugs of abuse and dealing with particular populations, together with youth, pregnant girls, and dually clinically determined and homeless participants. additionally addressed are the nuts and bolts of constructing and investment contingency administration courses. (20100401)

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J. ), Psychopharmacology: The fourth generation of progress (pp. 1807–1819). New York: Raven Press. PART I CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT ACROSS SUBSTANCES CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT ACROSS SUBSTANCES Cocaine CHAPTER 2 COCAINE Stephen T. Higgins, Sarah H. Heil, Randall E. , 2004). , Karch, 2005; Kruszon-Moran & McQuillan, 2005; Lucas, 2005; Nnadi, Mimiko, McCurtis, & Cadet, 2005; Schiller & Allen, 2005). The problems related to cocaine dependence that have received so much publicity over the past couple of decades have been largely centered in the United States.

VBRT is the most extensively researched and empirically supported CM intervention for treatment of cocaine dependence, but others have been investigated, including, for example, contingent housing with homeless individuals (see Milby & Schumacher, Chapter 9, this volume) and medication take-home privileges with methadone maintenance patients (Stitzer, Iguchi, & Felch, 1992). Rationale for Using CM to Treat Cocaine Dependence As demand for treatment for cocaine dependence grew precipitously in the late 1980s and early 1990s, various treatment approaches were explored in residential and outpatient settings.

Smoking status in the initial weeks of quitting as a predictor of smoking cessation outcomes in pregnant women. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 85, 138–141. Higgins, S. , Heil, S. , & Lussier, J. P. (2004). Clinical implications of reinforcement as a determinant of substance use disorders. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 431–461. Higgins, S. , Heil, S. , Solomon, L. , Bernstein, I. , Lussier, J. , Abel, R. , et al. (2004). A pilot study on voucher-based incentives to promote abstinence from cigarette smoking during pregnancy and postpartum.

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