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ABSTRACT:
A clinical trial contrasted 2 interventions designed to link opioid-dependent hospital patients to drug abuse treatment. The 126 out-of-treatment participants were randomly assigned to (a) case management, (b) voucher for free methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), (c) case management plus voucher, or (d) usual care. Services were provided for 6 months. MMT enrollment at 3 months was 47% (case management), 89% (voucher), 93% (case management plus voucher), and 11% (usual care); at 6 months enrollment was 48%, 68%, 79%, and 21%, respectively. Case management and vouchers can be valuable in health settings to link substance abusers with medical problems to drug abuse treatment.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
James L Sorensen, Carmen L Masson, Kevin Delucchi, Karl Sporer, Paul G Barnett, Fumi Mitsuishi, Christine Lin, Yong Song, TeChieh Chen, and Sharon M Hall, "Randomized trial of drug abuse treatment-linkage strategies." (2005). Journal of consulting and clinical psychology. 73 (6), pp. 1026-1035. Postprint available free at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/2488

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