Prize-based contingency management does not increase gambling

Nancy M Petry; Ken B Kolodner; Rui Li; Jessica M Peirce; John M Roll; Maxine L Stitzer; John A Hamilton

doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.11.023

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Prize-based contingency management does not increase gambling

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Prize-based contingency management does not increase gambling

Nancy M Petry, Ken B Kolodner, Rui Li, Jessica M Peirce, John M Roll, Maxine L Stitzer and John A Hamilton

Drug and alcohol dependence, Vol.83(3), pp.269-273

2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.11.023

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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/113974

PMID: 16377101

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Gambling

Stimulant use

Contingency management

Drug abuse treatment

Methamphetamine

Cocaine

Methadone

A contingency management (CM) intervention that provides drug-abstinent patients a chance to win prizes of varying magnitudes is efficacious in retaining patients in treatment and reducing drug use. However, this intervention has been criticized as possibly increasing gambling because it contains an element of chance. Gambling behaviors before, during and 3 months after participation in a multi-site study of CM were compared for stimulant users randomly assigned to 12 weeks of standard care with ( N = 407) or without ( N = 396) prize-based CM. Among study participants enrolled in outpatient non-methadone drug abuse treatment ( N = 415), 26% reported gambling during the observation period, and this rate was 37% among participants ( N = 388) enrolled in methadone maintenance programs. No differences in gambling over time were noted between those assigned to the prize CM versus standard care conditions, indicating that this prize CM procedure does not adversely impact gambling behavior among stimulant abusers.

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Title: Prize-based contingency management does not increase gambling
Creators: Nancy M Petry - Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030-3944, United States
Ken B Kolodner - Johns Hopkins University, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
Rui Li - Johns Hopkins University, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
Jessica M Peirce - Johns Hopkins University, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
John M Roll - Washington State University, P.O. Box 1495, Spokane, WA 99210, United States
Maxine L Stitzer - Johns Hopkins University, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
John A Hamilton - Liberation Programs, 125 Main Street, Stamford, CT 06901, United States
Publication Details: Drug and alcohol dependence, Vol.83(3), pp.269-273
Academic Unit: Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
Publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Identifiers: 99900547586801842
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Prize-based contingency management does not increase gambling

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