Cash for clean tests: App-Based rewards aim to curb opioid and cocaine use
NCT ID NCT04927143
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
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.
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.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 600 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Sep 2021
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age at least 18 years old; * Meet DSM-5 OUD, CoUD, or MUD criteria as evidenced by an OUD CPT code F11\* (opioid related disorders), a CoUD CPT code F14\* (cocaine related disorders), a MUD CPT code F15.1/F15.2 or other clinical notes indicating illicit opioid/cocaine/methamphetamine use for treatment * Have access to a smartphone (iOS or Android) with data plan and willing to download DynamiCare app; * Have an email and can access it from their smartphone; * Are in residential, day (PHP), partial day (IOP), or outpatient (OP) AODA treatment; * Are likely to be helped by contingency management because at least ONE of the following conditions is true: 1. Were first enrolled in residential, PHP, or IOP substance use treatment no longer than 2 treatment weeks (14 days/encounters of treatment) prior to providing informed consent. 2. Used non-medical opioids, cocaine, and/or methamphetamine within the last 21 days. * Understands English. Exclusion Criteria: * Have evidence of active (non-substance related) psychosis that might impair participation as determined by the PI. * Has significant cognitive impairment that might confound participation as determined by the PI or are so significantly cognitively impaired that they have a legal guardian.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Advocate Aurora Behavioral Health Services
RECRUITINGWauwatosa, Wisconsin, 53212, United States
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Rogers Behavioral Health
RECRUITINGOconomowoc, Wisconsin, 53066, United States
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