Contingency planning and crisis management are not conflicting concepts but instead work in tandem. Contingency planning is the process of preparing for potential emergencies, while crisis management ...

Contingency management leads to preparedness in the event of an emergency, disaster, or system failure. It utilizes risk assessment and is intended to identify vulnerabilities and threats, and to ...

Clyde Davis battled a methamphetamine and heroin addiction for over nine years. He tried various treatment programs, but none worked for him before he reached his insurance maximum and was forced to ...

Contingency management (CM) is a behavioral therapy technique that encourages beneficial behaviors by giving rewards or positive reinforcement. CM incentivizes certain behaviors and discourages ...

More than 48 million Americans have struggled with a substance use disorder (SUD) over the last 12 months. Despite decades of research and treatment interventions, relapse rates remain stubbornly high ...

An approach called contingency management rewards drug users with money and prizes for staying abstinent. But few programs offer it, in part because of moral objections to the concept. By Abby ...

Bernard Groves has spent five years trying to quit methamphetamine. He lost his job. He lost his car. He nearly lost his apartment. Worse than that, he says, his addiction has hurt his family. “I went ...

Contingency Management (CM) is a behavioral treatment model that is based on operant conditioning and uses positive reinforcement to modify behavior. Developed in the 1980s and 1990s for substance use ...