Can reinforcement-based interventions to reduce drug use successfully be adapted to routine opioid maintenance treatment?

INTRODUCTION: Comorbid substance related disorders are a major health problem for patients in opioid maintenance treatment (OMT). It was investigated whether a reinforcement scheme adapted to the regulatory and financial restrictions of routine treatment reduces concomitant drug use. METHODS: OMT pa...

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Main Authors: Michael Specka, Antje Böning, Jürgen Kluwig, Fabrizio Schifano, Markus Banger, Wolfgang Lange, Hildegard Lax, Bärbel Marrziniak, Claudia Schüngel, Norbert Scherbaum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2013-12-01
Series:Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0021-25712013000400007&lng=en&tlng=en