Long-Term Housing and Work Outcomes Among Treated Cocaine-Dependent Homeless Persons

@davidzailer @Twolfrecovery @auweia1 A 6-month, high quality contingency management program (housing contingent on abstinence + behavioral treatment) resulted in 2/3 of clients being unhoused at 1 year. https://t.co/YeHC85uUD9

@SteebMichele @HUDgov @TPPF @RepAndyBarr 5/In high quality, effective behavioral treatment for entirely voluntary homeless cocaine users, offered by my cherished scientific mentors, cocaine use fell but only 40% wound up housed or employed 6 months after t

RT @StefanKertesz: 7/As it turns out - making Housing contingent on perfect treatment success means most who are homeless remain so, even i…

RT @StefanKertesz: 7/As it turns out - making Housing contingent on perfect treatment success means most who are homeless remain so, even i…

RT @StefanKertesz: 7/As it turns out - making Housing contingent on perfect treatment success means most who are homeless remain so, even i…

RT @StefanKertesz: 7/As it turns out - making Housing contingent on perfect treatment success means most who are homeless remain so, even i…

7/As it turns out - making Housing contingent on perfect treatment success means most who are homeless remain so, even if they sought the treatment. Hence the “treatment first, Housing earned” turns out to be a failed approach for most https://t.co/gh7rJHz

@EricaJSandberg 2/Strengths & weaknesses of *voluntarily chosen* abstinent-contingent management housing. Substance use outcomes good. Housing, much less so. Not in SF, obviously. https://t.co/RwJyZKBIUD https://t.co/gh7rJHigfM

@EricaJSandberg 4/I have studied- extensively- both the challenges to sober-based treatment programs (lousy housing outcomes, about 30% housed at 12 months, see link) and challenges to effective implementation of Housing First programs that, still, work we

7/Our policy cannot succeed however without addressing both items at once. The very best, evidence based work and addiction treatment cannot deliver a high % success for long term housing if the local community restricts access to housing, as we reported h

4/I do know that for some, typically less disabled or less ill, more modest $ supports or targeted treatment _that they choose_ will be their way back. I worked with addiction researchers Milby & Schumacher, showing strengths & limits of such appro

7/Addiction recovery still can be a key step to regaining a job and housing. Except when it’s not! In our work, for individuals who attended NIDA-funded abstinence contingent treatment for 6 months, <50% achieved stable work & housing 6 months late

@RDashford https://t.co/gh7rJHigfM "Because the multivariable analyses were exploratory and of low power, p-values are offered as evidence re: strength of potential association; they are not intended to represent formal hypothesis testing, but may contrib