Update: Greased Wheels on a Slippery Slope

“What if addiction treatment programs gave out prizes to patients just for showing up to treatment? Some might call this a waste of money, or bribery, or counter-productive to addressing the underlying issues of addiction. Others say it actually helps patients succeed. Brandywine Counseling is studying this very question as part of the Advancing Recovery project.~ BCI Blog”

A few months back I reviewed a program that our friends over at Brandywine Counseling were trying out that used prizes as incentives to increase treatment retention. The longer you stayed in treatment, the more chances you had to win prizes. “Greasing the Wheels of Recovery” was the name of my first review, so you can probably already guess at the results by the title of this update. After two months, how is it working? Well thanks to Matt and the Brandywine Blog you can go and read for yourself.

Click here for the Update on the Advancing Recovery Project

They are going to press forward with the project, and even though I am skeptical I applaud their efforts. Good luck Brandywine, hopefully time will show your numbers on retention trending back upward.

“(Recovery) has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives…” ~ Kent Nerburn quote with an obvious edit by yours truly

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