Contingency Management for Smokers

~ Jason Schwartz
I’ve bristled before at the use of incentives for addicts. I worry that it smacks of “the subtle bigotry of low expectations.”

However, I saw this post on incentives for smokers and was confronted with the fact that we use a financial incentives for employees at Dawn Farm and have for more than 15 years.

I’ll have to digest this for a while.

Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.