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Presented at the 14th Annual Meeting
of the American Academy of Addiction
Psychiatry (AAAP), New Orleans, LA, December 4-7, 2003.
Maxine Stitzer, PhD (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MA Node).
This presentation on the MIEDAR studies (Motivational Incentives for Enhanced Drug Abuse Recovery) compares the potential effectiveness of motivational incentives on participants involved in two different types of drug addiction recovery programs -- psychosocial (drug-free) versus methadone. Nancy Petry's "Fishbowl" method of incentives was used in the two studies. Drug-free participants were allowed to draw tickets from a bowl, 50% of which were "winners" and could be traded for rewards of varying value (everything from toiletries to VCRs). The longer a participant was drug-free, the more tickets they were allowed to draw at a time. The hypothesis was that methadone patients and patients undergoing drug-free treatment might respond differently to the promise of prizes, perhaps due to differences in patient characteristics. (Presentation, PowerPoint Slides, English, 2003)
 Keywords: Behavior therapy | Baseline data | Contingency Management (CM) | Methadone maintenance | MIEDAR | Motivational incentives | Stimulant abuse | American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) annual meeting, 2003
Document No: 15
Approved by John Hamilton, Chair, Dissemination Subcommittee (1/23/2004). |
