Recovery Housing and Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Mental and Behavioral Disorders Due to Use of Cocaine: Harmful Use, Opiate Addiction
In brief
Reinforcement-Based Therapy (RBT) is an intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment that includes relapse prevention skills training, goal setting, help with finding employment and abstinence-contingent rent payment for recovery housing in the community. It is meant to provide motivation for continued abstinence while enhancing social stability. In this study, treatment was offered to inner city opiate and cocaine users immediately following a brief medically-supported residential detoxification. Previous research had shown that RBT produces 3- month outcomes superior to those for patients who are referred to outpatient treatment in the community. The present study compared outcomes for patients (N = 243) randomly assigned to receive abstinence-contingent recovery housing with (full RBT) or without additional intensive counseling or to receive usual care referral to outpatient treatment following detoxification. Outcomes were similar at 3- and 6-month follow-ups for those who received recovery housing with (full RBT) and without additional counseling and both these treatments were superior to usual care referral. Study findings support the efficacy of post-detoxification recovery housing with or without counseling for opiate and cocaine users.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03278496
- Run by
- Johns Hopkins University
- People needed
- 243
- Starts
- 2001-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-09-11
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- completes residential detoxification for use of opiates and/or cocaine
- willing to go to outpatient aftercare
- agrees to random assignment; signs informed consent
You may not qualify if…
- moving out of town
- primary substance use does not include opiates or cocaine
Where it is running
- Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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