Spending money to make change: Association of methamphetamine abstinence and voucher spending among contingency management pilot participants in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Methamphetamine Use Disorder is prevalent in South Africa. This analysis uses data from a contingency management (CM) pilot study in South Africa to replicate and expand on a U.S.-based study showing that CM voucher spending was associated with drug abstinence behavior.

Design

Participants with methamphetamine-use disorder were enrolled in an 8-week CM trial requiring thrice weekly visits and received cash vouchers in exchange for stimulant-negative urines at each visit.

Participants

Participants were 33 treatment-seeking individuals with methamphetamine use disorder including 22 men (66.7%) and 11 women (33.3%) with a mean age of 34 years (S.D. = 7.7). Participants reported using methamphetamine for a mean of 11.7 years (S.D. = 4.9).

Setting

All study pro

SUBMITTER: Krishnamurti T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7089867 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature