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Contingency management

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NICE Guideline NG58 -Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Contingency management is a set of techniques that focus on changing specific behaviours. For example, in drug misuse, it involves offering incentives for positive behaviours such as abstinence or a reduction in illicit drug use, and participation in health-promoting interventions.

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