Across the U.S., some drug treatment facilities are beginning to use incentive-based programs to reward patients who's drug tests come back negative. A team of Yale scientists studied one of these programs to try and determine it's cost and effectiveness.

"If patients submitted drug-free urine samples, they earned chances to draw from a fishbowl with 500 chips... The longer the patients remained drug-free, the more draws they earned."

These types of programs have been proven effective in helping substance abuse patients stay abstinent for longer periods of time.

Read the full article online.

Posted By: Lori S