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Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2008 Feb 21;35(4):462–469. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2007.12.008

Table 2.

Proposed Weekly and Episode Cost Bands

Modality	Weekly Cost	Episode Cost
Methadone maintenance	$87 – $112	$4,277 – $13,395
Non-methadone outpatient	$74 – $221	$1,132 – $2,099
Intensive (i.e., day treatment) outpatient	$243 – $598	$1,384 – $5,780
Adolescent outpatient	$139 – $281	$1,517 – $3,237
Drug court	$34 – $146	$2,486 – $4,888
Adult residential	$607 – $918	$2,907 – $11,260
Therapeutic community	$569 – $708	$14,818 – $32,361
In-prison therapeutic community	$55 – $71	$1,249 – $2,112

Notes: The cost bands correspond to the interquartile range for each modality (25^th to 75^th percentile). Estimates are not reported for “screening and brief intervention” and “adolescent residential” due to very small sample sizes for these modalities.