Patricia Quinn Stabile

TL;DR: The abstinence-based incentive procedure, which provided a mean of 203 dollars in prizes per participant, was efficacious in improving retention and associated abstinence outcomes.

TL;DR: It is suggested that stimulant abusers presenting to treatment with a stimulant-negative urine benefit from abstinence incentives, but alternative treatment approaches are needed for those who test stimulant positive at intake.

TL;DR: Exposing community treatment providers to incentive programs may itself be an effective strategy in prompting the dissemination of CM interventions, and some differences were found in opinions regarding costs of incentives, which generally indicated that participants from CM sites were more likely to see the costs as worthwhile.

TL;DR: A cocaine-positive urine sample at study intake was the most robust and consistent correlate of stimulant use outcome in all analyses, confirming that intake assessments have considerable value in identifying problems to be addressed in treatment.

TL;DR: The study suggests that abstinence incentives should be offered as a first priority to stimulant users entering treatment without criminal justice referral and incentives can be considered for use with CJ-referred stimulants users based on the observation that best outcomes were obtained in CJ referrals who also received the abstinence incentive program.