Interest in and perceived effectiveness of contingency management among alcohol drinkers using behavioral economic purchase tasks.

ABSTRACT: Contingency management (CM), in which financial incentives are provided upon verification of abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, and/or illicit substances, is one of the most highly effective and empirically supported treatments for substance use disorders. However, the financial cost of implementation has been identified as a major barrier to implementation of this treatment. The purpose of this study was to develop behavioral economic purchase tasks to assess interest in CM as a function of treatment cost and perceived effectiveness of CM as a function of abstinence incentive size in alcohol drinkers. Alcohol drinkers recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) completed behavioral economic purchase tasks measuring demand for CM based on targeted abstinence intervals and treatment eff

SUBMITTER: Traxler HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10103538 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature