
Understanding treatment
What Contingency Management Means in Addiction Treatment
Understand how contingency management links agreed treatment goals to incentives, and what to ask a service about its programme.

Understand how contingency management links agreed treatment goals to incentives, and what to ask a service about its programme.

Clarify the medicine list, next prescriber and pharmacy arrangements before leaving a treatment service, so follow-up does not depend on assumptions.

Questions to ask while awaiting substance-use treatment, including interim support, contact details and changes that need prompt clinical attention.

Prepare a short, realistic response to cravings with your care team, including a safer setting, a contact and a next action you can manage.

Prepare a return-to-work week during recovery by coordinating support, practical demands and boundaries without making disclosure decisions in a rush.