Journal article
Prize-based contingency management does not increase gambling
Drug and alcohol dependence, Vol.83(3), pp.269-273
2006
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/113974
PMID: 16377101
Abstract
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 (
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407) or without (
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396) prize-based CM. Among study participants enrolled in outpatient non-methadone drug abuse treatment (
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415), 26% reported gambling during the observation period, and this rate was 37% among participants (
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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 StatesKen B Kolodner - Johns Hopkins University, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, United StatesRui Li - Johns Hopkins University, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, United StatesJessica M Peirce - Johns Hopkins University, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, United StatesJohn M Roll - Washington State University, P.O. Box 1495, Spokane, WA 99210, United StatesMaxine L Stitzer - Johns Hopkins University, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, United StatesJohn 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