Table 4.

Community environment: recovery and the CM intervention

Theme	Example Quote
Abstinence	“Can’t really shove recovery into someone’s, you know, insides. They gotta wanna recover, they gotta wanna stay quit. All those times I went to treatment, I was forced to by the court system and I wasn’t ready, and I just keep progressing further and further and this time around I really wanted it, I really wanted to live life and not just survive.”
Reinforcers	“But this time you’re working it, your prize level goes up, I mean this is grand. This is great. I’ve never seen anything like this and this study will have a lot of impact on the future as to how…recovery can grow and develop…people might be serious about this because it’s kinda unbelievable…you’re not getting punished.”
Repairing trust	“If you start with the little small things…they see that when they’re sober they make that bond again. Build trust.”
Recognition/respect	“We want our people to feel successful and just the rewards, the certificates, all of that’s important. I had a young guy in the program, he had been to prison and he came through our rehab program… we gave him a certificate and a bag and you know what he said, ‘I’ve never been successful at anything.’ He couldn’t believe he got that certificate and I was just like, ‘oh my goodness’. …. So, it’s meaningful if you can do that.”
Issues with gift cards	“There are ways to take that gift card hock it, trade it, or something else with it or get the money and buy whatever you want like beer, alcohol.”