Contingency management treatment for methamphetamine use disorder in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and aims

As South Africa, especially the Western Cape Province, faces an epidemic of methamphetamine use disorder, therapeutic approaches suited to the South African context are needed. This secondary analysis assessed retention and methamphetamine abstinence outcomes in response to an 8-week pilot contingency management (CM) intervention trial of neural correlates of methamphetamine abstinence, exploring sociodemographic and clinical differences between responders and non-responders.

Design and methods

Research participants provided thrice-weekly monitored urine samples, which were analysed by qualitative radioimmunoassay. The primary outcome for this analysis was therapeutic response, defined as abstinence from methamphetamine (≥23 of 24 possible methamphetami

SUBMITTER: Okafor CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647047 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature