Small cash incentives as little as £30 are helping British health authorities get heroin addicts vaccinated against hepatitis B.
Researchers in the UK found that people undergoing treatment for heroin addiction who received a maximumof £30 supermarket vouchers in equal or graduated instalments in return for full compliance with a regimen of three vaccine injections were at least 12 times as likely to complete the course within 28 days.
That is compared to those not receiving a financial incentive, with only 9% of non-paid volunteers .
The study was led by Professor John Strang from the National Addiction Centre at King’s College London. He says that the revelation may not be startling, but the gulf between those that pay and those that don’t is.
Source: Paul Hosford, thejournal.ie, 09/04/14
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