Day treatment for cocaine dependence: Incremental utility over outpatient counseling and voucher incentives

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2003

Abstract

Urban, poor, crack cocaine-dependent clients were randomly assigned to outpatient addiction counseling (n=39) or day treatment (n=40). Participants in both conditions received equivalent individual cognitive-behavioral counseling and earned equivalent payment vouchers for providing cocaine-negative urine samples. However, day treatment participants attended significantly more psychoeducational and recreational groups and received two meals per day. Prior to random assignment, more participants expressed a preference for day treatment and participants were more likely to return for an initial appointment following assignment to day treatment. However, no significant between-groups differences in tenure or abstinence were detected during the 3-month course of treatment. These null findings were attributable to an absence of a dose-response effect for the group interventions in the day treatment condition. In addition, there may have been a ceiling effect from the vouchers, which masked the influence of the additional day treatment components. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Title

Addictive Behaviors

Volume

28

First Page

387

Last Page

398

Comments

This article was published in Addictive Behaviors, Volume 28, Issue 2.

The published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4603(01)00248-9 .

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