Reducing opiate and cocaine use with ABA

Forrest Toegel, Ph.D., BCBA-D joins Kylan Heiner, BCBA to discuss his recent study published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis on April 6th, 2020 titled Effects of time-based administration of abstinence reinforcement targeting opiate and cocaine use. References and links mentioned in this podcast:Addiction SIG at ABAI: https://www.abainternational.org/constituents/special-interests/special-interest-groups.aspxDallery, J., Silverman, K., Chutuape, M. A., Bigelow, G. E., & Stitzer, M. L. (2001). Voucher-based reinforcement of opiate plus cocaine abstinence in treatment-resistant methadone patients: Effects of reinforcer magnitude. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 9(3), 317–325.Toegel, F., Holtyn, A.F., Subramaniam, S. and Silverman, K. (2020), Effects of time‐based administration of abstinence reinforcement targeting opiate and cocaine use. Jnl of Applied Behav Analysis. doi:10.1002/jaba.702