Contingency Management in Substance Abuse Treatment

Stephen T. Higgins, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Vermont. The recipient of numerous national awards for research excellence, Dr. Higgins is currently President of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and principal and coinvestigator on numerous grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). He has published extensively on furthering scientific understanding of the behavioral and pharmacological processes involved in substance use disorders. Kenneth Silverman, PhD, served as a staff fellow in the Clinical Trials Section of NIDA’s Intramural Research Program in Baltimore from 1991 to 1993. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Silverman’s research focuses on developing operant treatments to address the interrelated problems of poverty and drug addiction. His primary research has focused on the development and evaluation of abstinence reinforcement interventions for heroin and cocaine addiction in poor, inner-city adults, and the integration of those abstinence reinforcement contingencies into model employment settings. Sarah H. Heil, PhD, is Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Vermont. Her research interests include the behavioral and pharmacological processes involved in substance use disorders, with a special focus on pregnant and recently postpartum women. She is a regular contributor to the scientific literature on drug abuse and has received several honors and awards for research excellence.

1. Introduction, Stephen T. Higgins and Kenneth Silverman

I. Contingency Management Across Substances

2. Cocaine, Stephen T. Higgins, Sarah H. Heil, Randall E. Rogers, and Laura Chivers

3. Opioids, David H. Epstein and Kenzie L. Preston

4. Marijuana, Alan J. Budney and Catherine Stanger

5. Methamphetamines, John M. Roll and Thomas Newton

6. Tobacco, Stacey C. Sigmon, Richard J. Lamb, and Jesse Dallery

7. Alcohol, Conrad J. Wong, Kenneth Silverman, and George E. Bigelow

8. Medication Compliance, Bruce J. Rounsaville, Marc Rosen, and Kathleen M. Carroll

II. Special Populations

9. Homeless Populations, Jesse B. Milby and Joseph Schumacher

10. Pregnant and Postpartum Women, Sarah H. Heil. Jin H. Yoon, and Stephen T. Higgins

11. People with Mental Illness, Jennifer W. Tidey and Rick Ries

12. Adolescents, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Amy M. Duhig, and Dana A. Cavallo

III. Dissemination

13. Large-Scale Dissemination Efforts in Drug Abuse Treatment Clinics, Maxine L. Stitzer and Scott Kellogg

14. Lowering Costs in Drug Abuse Treatment Clinics, Nancy M. Petry and Sheila M. Alessi

15. Use of Community Donations and Clinic Rebates to Fund Contingency Management in Community Treatment Clinics, Leslie Amass and Jonathan B. Kamien

16. Contingency Management in an Entitlement Rehabilitation Setting: An Example from the Veterans Health Administration, Charles Drebing, Bruce J. Rounsaville, and Robert Rosenheck

17. Employment-Based Reinforcement in the Treatment of Drug Addiction, Wendy D. Donlin, Todd W. Knealing, and Kenneth Silverman

18. Contingency Management in Adult Criminal Drug Courts, Douglas B. Marlowe and Conrad J. Wong