A reinforcement-based Therapeutic Workplace for the treatment of drug abuse: Three-year abstinence outcomes.
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 10 (3) , 228-240
- https://doi.org/10.1037//1064-1297.10.3.228
Abstract
Long-term Therapeutic Workplace effects were evaluated in heroin- and cocaine-dependent, unemployed, treatment-resistant young mothers. Participants were paid to work or to train in the Therapeutic Workplace but had to provide drug-free urine samples to gain daily access. Participants (N = 40) were randomly assigned to a Therapeutic Workplace or usual care control group. Therapeutic Workplace participants could work for 3 years. Relative to controls, Therapeutic Workplace participants increased cocaine (28% vs. 54% negative; p = .04) and opiate (37% vs. 60% negative; p = .05) abstinence on the basis of monthly urine samples collected until 3 years after intake. The Therapeutic Workplace can be an effective long-term treatment of cocaine and heroin addiction in poor and chronically unemployed young mothers.Keywords
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