Effectiveness and Costs of Enhanced Cocaine Treatments

University of Pennsylvania

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Cocaine Dependence

Treatments: Behavioral: Voucher Reinforcement + Extra Counseling Services; Behavioral: Voucher Reinforcement; Behavioral: Extra Counseling Services

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00167258

702110

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will evaluate the effectiveness, economic benefits, and costs of voucher reinforcement for cocaine and alcohol abstinence, additional counseling services, and their combination in a sample of cocaine dependent patients receiving outpatient treatment as usual in a community clinic.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Enrollment in an intensive outpatient program (IOP) for no more than 1 month
• Current DSM-IV diagnosis of cocaine dependence (month prior to IOP treatment)
• 18-65 years of age
• Ability to provide names of informants to help locate subject for follow-up

Exclusion criteria

• IV heroin use in last year
• Acute medical/psychiatric diagnosis that precludes outpatient treatment
• Inpatient treatment for 6 weeks or more prior to IOP treatment
• Incarceration for 6 months or more prior to IOP treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)