Recovery-Oriented Care for Drug Abusing Offenders

Abstract

As described by the authors, a recovery-oriented system of care for drug-abusing criminal offenders is one that provides for continuity of treatment, using evidence-based interventions at every stage as clients progress through the justice system. Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities of Illinois has partnered with criminal justice and treatment programs to establish a basic recovery-oriented system, with programs that span pre-adjudication, probation or incarceration, and parole.

Prison Meditation Movements and Mass Incarceration

“…While some states have tried to reduce spending per inmate via contracts with private prisons (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2013), or simply released prisoners, others have implemented diversion and rehabilitation programs to try to reduce the number of ex-prisoners who recidivate or are returned for probation and parole violations. These states have sought evidence based approaches to drug and alcohol treatment in jails and prison, in order to reduce recidivism among drug offenders (Heaps, Lurigio, Rodriguez, Lyons, & Brookes, 2009). In the past twenty years, treatments involving meditation and other contemplative practices have been developed for a variety of physical and mental disorders, including drug and alcohol addiction (Chiesa and Seretti, 2014).…”

The Criminal Justice System and More Lenient Drug Policy: Three Case Studies on California's Changes to How Its Criminal Justice System Addresses Drug Use

“…Research has explored the effectiveness of various interventions to engage justiceinvolved individuals with SUD treatment, but these commonly use an entity other than CS to act as the case manager. One type of program, the most common example being Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities, has utilized CS to link clients to case management interventions (Heaps, Lurigio, Rodriguez, Lyons, & Brookes, 2009;Longshore, Turner, & Fain, 2005). But in these cases, a case manager that is separate from CS is responsible to link those clients to SUD programming.…”

Response: Pathways to Recovery and Reintegration

“…One of our key recommendations for reforming California’s prison system was to institute an ambitious case management system that follows offenders through prison and aftercare. Illinois’ Sheridan program (see Heaps et al, 2009) was seen as a very useful model.…”