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Contingency management
Definition
From:
NICE Guideline NG66 - Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system
A set of techniques that focus on the use of reinforcement to change certain specified behaviours. These may include promoting abstinence from drugs (for example, cocaine), reducing drug misuse (for example, illicit drug use by people receiving methadone maintenance treatment), and improving adherence to interventions that can improve physical health outcomes.
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