The White House gives agencies more leeway with one of the few tools against meth use: financial incentives, or "contingency ...

Explore how smartphone apps combined with medication improve opioid addiction treatment, reducing opioid use and increasing ...

Contingency management participants will be eligible to receive up to $750 a year — via voucher or gift card — if their urine tests negative for drugs. Meanwhile, the fate of Affordable Care Act ...

THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Augmenting medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with smartphone app-based ...

Contingency management has a considerable and compelling evidence base in the treatment of substance misuse (for example, opioid misuse) but there is only a limited, if promising, evidence base for ...

a flexible automated contingency management tool designed to improve treatment adherence. Traditionally utilized to support individuals with alcohol and opioid use disorders, the application of ...

Therapy through a smartphone app can help people reduce their opioid use and stay in treatment, according to a study from UT Health San Antonio. The study followed 600 adult patients with opioid use ...

with smartphone app–based contingency management (CM) was associated with a 30% reduction in opioid use days and a 23% improvement in treatment retention compared with treatment with MOUD alone ...

Patients using a smartphone app combining behavioral therapy, peer support, and medication reduced opioid use by 35% compared ...

Fatal overdoses have gone through the roof in South Texas, a San Antonio Express-News investigation found. Yet treatment ...

People with OUD had 35% fewer days of opioid use when they were handed the app alongside medications for opioid use disorder ...