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Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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John H. Halpern, MD, associate director of substance abuse research at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., was researching the long-term consequences of hallucinogen use among American Indians when he noticed something. Many of his subjects’ experiences were positive, and he became part of a select group of researchers who chose to investigate whether certain controlled substances — drugs bought and sold on the sly at nightclubs and parties or on the street — could, under the right circumstances and in the hands of trained medical professionals, benefit patients.

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