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Psycho-social treatment to retain crack-cocaine users in treatment and reduce use
Summary of the evidence
A narrative review (Fischer et al., 2015), without meta-analysis, concluded that there is:
- some evidence to support the effectiveness of contingency management in outcomes such as retention in treatment and behavioural outcomes, eg, reduce use, abstinence yet mixed evidence in relation to social outcomes, eg, housing and employment albeit in the short-term of treatment.
Details
Note: this evidence summary is only valid for the outcomes, target groups, settings and substances/patterns of use described below.
