Cash for clean tests: App-Based rewards aim to curb opioid and cocaine use

NCT ID NCT04927143

First seen Nov 01, 2025 · Last updated Jun 23, 2026 · Updated 30 times

Summary

This study tests whether giving financial incentives for negative drug tests can help people with opioid, cocaine, or methamphetamine use disorder stay abstinent. Six hundred participants use a smartphone app to submit saliva tests. Some receive escalating or de-escalating rewards for clean tests, while a control group gets no rewards. The goal is to find the best way to design these incentives to encourage long-term abstinence.

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Study contacts

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Locations

  • Advocate Aurora Behavioral Health Services

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    Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 53212, United States

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  • Rogers Behavioral Health

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    Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 53066, United States

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What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only — not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance

financial incentives via smartphone app

What this could lead to

If successful, this could provide a low-cost, scalable way to help people with substance use disorders achieve and maintain abstinence.

What could go wrong

This is a behavioral study, not a drug trial. The effect may be modest, and long-term abstinence after incentives stop is uncertain.

Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

amphetamine abuse opiate dependence substance-related disorder

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.