Abstinence-Linked Money Management Multisite

Yale University

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Cocaine Dependence

Dual Diagnosis

Polysubstance Abuse

Cocaine Abuse

Treatments

Behavioral: ATM

Behavioral: Individual Drug Counseling

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT01327586

R01DA012952 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

0904004971

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized clinical trial comparing a money management-based intervention involving storage and management of client funds, substance abuse counseling, and risk reduction counseling to individualized drug counseling.

Enrollment

108 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Enrolled in ambulatory psychiatric treatment at one of the participating clinics
Receives SSI or SSDI payments
Able to provide written informed consent
Cocaine use within the last 60 days as evidenced by either a positive toxicology screen or self-reports

Exclusion criteria

Has a conservator of person
A history of violence towards clinical providers or predatory violence
Suicidal plans or intent; homicidal plans or intent. Suicidal or homicidal ideation will not be exclusion criteria
Physiological dependence on alcohol, illicit opiates or illicit sedatives as evidenced by a history of four weeks of daily use of these substances; and either tolerance or withdrawal (as defined by DSM IV-TR). The "standard withdrawal scales" referred to in DSM IV-TR will be the CIWA-AR (Sullivan et al., 1989) and the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (Wesson and Ling, 2003), with P.I. review because signs on the CIWA-AR such as "aware of sounds around you" may reflect psychiatric illness, not withdrawal
Will not be able to complete the twelve months of the study because of anticipated incarceration or move
Had been enrolled in the ongoing study
Unable to speak and understand English