Kenneth Silverman, PhD

• Director, Center for Learning and Health

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

• Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
• Learning and Health, Center for

Center for Learning and Health
5200 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224

Phone: (410) 550-2694
Fax: (410) 550-7495
ksilverm@jhmi.edu

Drug addition, Operant learning interventions to address interrelated problems, Poverty, Unemployment

The development and experimental evaluation of operant learning interventions to address the interrelated problems of poverty, unemployment and health

• 1. Silverman K, Chutuape MA, Bigelow GE, Stitzer ML.  Voucher-based reinforcement of cocaine abstinence in treatment-resistant methadone patients: effects of reinforcement magnitude. Psychopharmacology. 1999; 146: 128-138.
  2. Silverman K, Svikis D, Robles E, Stitzer ML, Bigelow GE. A reinforcement-based therapeutic workplace for the treatment of drug abuse: 6-month abstinence outcomes. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2001; 9: 14-23.
  3. Silverman K, Svikis D, Wong CJ, Hampton J, Stitzer ML, Bigelow GE. A reinforcement-based therapeutic workplace for the treatment of drug abuse: 3-year abstinence outcomes. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2002; 10: 228-240.
  4. Silverman K, Robles E, Mudric T, Bigelow GE, Stitzer ML. A randomized trial of long-term reinforcement of cocaine abstinence in methadone maintained injection drug users. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2004; 72: 839-854.
  5. Silverman K. Exploring the limits and utility of operant conditioning in the treatment of drug addiction.  The Behavior Analyst. 2004; 27: 209-230.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1991, Behavioral Pharmacology