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HHS OIG doubles down on constraints against contingency management
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32812
Subject(s) - contingency management , stimulant , exacerbation , contingency , opioid use disorder , opioid , opioid abuse , case management , psychiatry , business , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , receptor , intervention (counseling)
Stimulant use disorders are on the rise resulting in exacerbation of the opioid epidemic, with stimulants often present in opioid overdoses.. Subcontractors are lining up to implement the new stimulant use disorder treatment provisions of the $1 billion annual State Opioid Response (SOR) federal grant program. And contingency management (CM), in which patients are given monetary rewards for not using drugs, is the best — by far — treatment for stimulant use disorder.