Digital Contingency Management for Substance Use Disorder Treatment: 12-Month Quasi-Experimental Design

Xiaoni Zhang1, Valerie Hardcastle2

  • 1Department of Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, CSB 371 710 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL, 35294, United States, 1 2059348890, 1 2059348830.

JMIR Mental Health
|September 2, 2025
PubMed
Summary

Digital contingency management (DCM) improved abstinence and appointment attendance for substance use disorder. This study provides evidence for DCM

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