Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach : Treating Cocaine Addiction

Addiction treatment has been effective in reducing drug use & HIV infection, diminishing the health & social costs that result from addiction, & decreasing criminal behavior. This manual provides an approach to treating cocaine dependence, which remains an intractable public health problem. This intervention, Community Reinforcement + Vouchers Approach (CRA), integrates a community reinforcement approach, with an incentive program (Vouchers) wherein patients can earn points exchangeable for retail items by remaining in treatment & cocaine abstinent. This manual provides the guidance for therapists to implement CRA as a whole as well as the individual components that are effective as adjuncts to other treatments. Illustrations.Leshner, Alan I. is the author of 'Community Reinforcement Plus Vouchers Approach : Treating Cocaine Addiction', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422305294 and ISBN 1422305295.