Contingency management—where individuals earn privileges (like private shelter rooms) by passing drug tests, and lose those privileges upon relapse (but retain shelter access)—is an evidence-based addiction treatment approach supported by research from Birmingham, Alabama and accepted even by harm-reduction advocates like the Drug Policy Alliance.
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Michael SchellenbergerEvidence Quote
“they took crack addicts in the 1980s they said everybody needs to come off the street you need to be in shelter and what one thing that a lot of people really want when they come off the streets they want their own private room”
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