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Review
. 2019 Feb;16(1):29-36.
doi: 10.1007/s11904-019-00423-y.

Interventions to Reduce Drug Use Among Methamphetamine Users at Risk for HIV

Karen F Corsi  1 , Steve Shoptaw  2 , Musheng Alishahi  3 , Robert E Booth  3
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Interventions to Reduce Drug Use Among Methamphetamine Users at Risk for HIV

Karen F Corsi et al. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2019 Feb.

Abstract

Purpose of review: This paper reports on the results of a study comparing two behavioral treatments for methamphetamine users. The outcome was the effectiveness of the interventions in reducing meth use. The interventions were contingency management (CM) and contingency management plus strengths-based case management (CM/SBCM).

Recent findings: CM/SBCM was found to be associated with attending more sessions for people who reported being in a couple. Also, participants who earned more money in the first part of the study were more likely to have more clean urinalysis in the second part of the study. Latent class analysis identified a class of participants who were in a couple, without sexual abuse history, and less meth use at baseline. This class tended to have more clean urinalysis in the CM/SBCM intervention. These results indicate that incentive-based interventions with case management may be useful for helping meth users reduce their drug use.

Keywords: Behavioral interventions; Contingency management; Methamphetamine.

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All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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