Contingency Management (CM) is a behavioral treatment model that is based on operant conditioning and uses positive reinforcement to modify behavior. Developed in the 1980s and 1990s for substance use ...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. cities wanting to pay people with drug addiction to stay sober have scored a major victory by getting more funding for what are known as contingency management programs. Health ...

Bernard Groves has spent five years trying to quit methamphetamine. He lost his job. He lost his car. He nearly lost his apartment. Worse than that, he says, his addiction has hurt his family. “I went ...

More than 48 million Americans have struggled with a substance use disorder (SUD) over the last 12 months. Despite decades of research and treatment interventions, relapse rates remain stubbornly high ...

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Fact is, contingency management (CM) is a ho-hum name for a type of therapy that can produce exciting results—and has for decades. With this post, I will explain what it is, how it is best used, and ...

There's an urgent need for treatment to help people addicted to cocaine and meth. One approach has decades of research showing it works but it's hard to find. For decades, even as deaths from ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Frustrated by out-of-control increases in drug overdose deaths, California's leaders are trying something radical: They want the state to be the first to pay people to stay sober.