Smartphone App-Based Contingency Management and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Opioid use disorder continues to be a national crisis, contributing to substantial morbidity and mortality. Medication is the only evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder; however, improving clinical outcomes may require augmenting it with psychosocial interventions, such as contingency management (CM), specifically, smartphone app-based CM.

Objective

To evaluate whether augmenting medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with app-based CM is associated with fewer days of opioid use at the end of treatment and greater retention than treatment with MOUD only.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used data from November 1, 2020, to November 30, 2023, collected from opioid treatment programs and office-based opioid treatm

SUBMITTER: Marino EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11612830 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature