Cocaine abstinence during the "critical period" of a contingency management trial predicts future abstinence in people with cocaine use disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contingency Management (CM) is being piloted as a treatment for stimulant use disorder in several US states, highlighting the need for treatment optimization. One important goal of optimization is decreasing drug use during the early stages of treatment, which has predicted success in other interventions. However, this "critical period" has not been reported in CM trials. The purpose of this analysis was to determine if, after accounting for baseline abstinence and incentive condition, abstinence in a CM trial for people with Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD) could be predicted by cocaine use during a first-week critical period.

Methods

Eighty-seven participants with CUD were randomized to receive contingent high or low value incentives for cocaine abstinence or were in

SUBMITTER: Regnier SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10841665 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature