A randomized clinical trial of a Therapeutic Workplace for chronically unemployed, homeless, alcohol-dependent adults.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To assess the efficacy of the Therapeutic Workplace, a substance abuse intervention that promotes abstinence while simultaneously addressing the issues of poverty and lack of job skills, in promoting abstinence from alcohol among homeless alcoholics.

Methods

Participants (n = 124) were randomly assigned to conditions either requiring abstinence from alcohol to engage in paid job skills training (Contingent Paid Training group), offering paid job skills training with no abstinence contingencies (Paid Training group) or offering unpaid job skill training with no abstinence contingencies (Unpaid Training group).

Results

Participants in the Contingent Paid Training group had significantly fewer positive (blood alcohol level ≥ 0.004 g/dl) breath samples than the Paid

SUBMITTER: Koffarnus MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3156886 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature