Study Design and Procedures
The 12-week study included 5 individual meetings with study staff at baseline entry into treatment, and 2, 4, 8, and 12 weeks postbaseline. Participants received $25 incentives for each meeting. New patients were recruited on their first day of methadone treatment. At the end of the initial intake procedures, a member of the study team approached interested participants to obtain informed consent and completion of in-person survey and assessment. As in previous studies,