Reforming Drug Treatment Services to Offenders: Cross-System Collaboration, Integrated Policies, and a Seamless Continuum of Care Model

VanderWaal, Curtis J; Taxman, Faye S.; Gurka, Melissa A.

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“…The primary implication from this study suggests that correctional policies, both within correctional institutions and community-based corrections, should emphasize continued care after community re-entry for rural offenders. Rural areas often have limited treatment opportunities, thus cross-system collaboration is needed so that the criminal justice system can play an important role in ensuring that an appropriate level of care is received for offenders re-entering rural communities (VanderWaal et al, 2008). In fact, Kentucky has established of partnership between the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research and the Kentucky Department of Corrections to develop a set of re-entry guidelines (Staton-Tindall, Rees, Oser, McNees, Palmer, & Leukefeld, 2007).…”

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“…While VanderWaal, Taxman, & Gurka-Ndanyi (2008) call for a continued care model that includes cross-system collaboration, the majority of offenders are not formally linked to services after being released from prison. About 600,000 state prison inmates are released back into the community each year, yet approximately two-thirds of them will be rearrested within three years (Travis, Solomon, & Waul, 2001).…”

Section: Continued Care In Rural Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Inmate Prerelease Assessment (IPASS) Aftercare Placement Recommendation as a Predictor of Rural Inmate's 12-step Attendance and Treatment Entry Postrelease

Oser¹,

Biebel²,

Havens³

et al. 2009

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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The purpose of this study is to use the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies’ (CJ-DATS) Inmate Pre-Release Assessment (IPASS), which recommends either intensive or non-intensive treatment after release, to predict rural offenders’12-step attendance and treatment entry within 6 months of release from prison. IPASS scores indicated that 52% of rural offenders needed intensive treatment upon community re-entry. In bivariate analyses, rural offenders with an intensive aftercare placement recommendation were significantly younger, more likely to have been employed more months in the year prior to incarceration, to have ever injected drugs, and to have ever received outpatient substance abuse treatment. The variables which were significant at the bivariate level were entered into two logistic multivariate models predicting 12-step attendance and treatment entry within 6 months of being released from prison. Age and having ever injected drugs were positive predictors of having attended a 12-step meeting, while the number of months legally employed was negatively related to 12-step attendance. In the treatment entry model, age increased the odds of entering formal treatment while having ever injected a drug decreased the odds. IPASS aftercare placement recommendation was not significant in either of the multivariate models. Findings from this study suggest that offenders re-entering rural communities may receive limited community-based continued care and future studies should explore geographic-specific treatment barriers. Implications for rural substance abuse treatment are provided.

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Section: Continued Care In Rural Communitiesmentioning

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Inmate Prerelease Assessment (IPASS) Aftercare Placement Recommendation as a Predictor of Rural Inmate's 12-step Attendance and Treatment Entry Postrelease

Oser¹,

Biebel²,

Havens³

et al. 2009

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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“…According to the Pew Center on the States (2009) Drug offenders comprise more than one fifth of the more than 2 million people in U.S. prisons and about one fourth of the more than 4 million people in local jails or on probation (Glaze & Palla, 2004;Harrison & Beck, 2003). Much of the large population is a direct product of the long-running "War on Drugs" (Field, 2002;Mears, Winterfield, Hunsaker, Moore, & White, 2003;VanderWaal, Taxman, & Gurka-Ndanyi, 2008). About 80% of U.S. prison inmates (90% of violent offenders) have used illicit drugs, and roughly half claim to have been under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol while committing their crimes (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1999).…”

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Treatment or Else

Zhang

Roberts

Lansing

2012

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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This study evaluated a community-based correctional program in California, in which parolees tested positive on illicit drugs were given the option of going into a treatment program or having their parole revoked and returned to prison in California. Two comparison groups were constructed to assess the treatment effect-a propensity-based comparison group extracted from the general parolee population and program dropouts. Although implicitly coercive, some parolees who finished the program were less likely to be reincarcerated 12 months following release than both comparison groups. However, the observed treatment advantage quickly eroded in the second observation year. Savings realized from the incarcerations avoided were more than enough to pay for the program. Findings from this study suggest that boosting participation in reentry services through coercive measures may yield currently unrealized individual and societal benefits. However, systemic efforts are needed to extend the short-term treatment effects. Design and data limitations in the study weaken the persuasiveness of these findings. Methodological implications and policy issues about coerced treatment are discussed.

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“…Although the concept of surrendering at the alcoholic bottom seems incompatible with the more agentive therapeutic frameworks now popular in professional counseling, the evidence suggests that many recovering alcoholics rely on a combination of professional treatment and mutual-help groups to sustain their abstinence (Patterson & Nochaski, 2010;VanderWaal et al, 2008). AA estimates a third of its members enter AA through a treatment center, and 63% of its members receive some form of treatment or counseling before entering AA and the same proportion do so after entering the fellowship (AA, 2001).…”

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“…AA was helping "people who were scarcely more than potential alcoholics" so it was "necessary to raise the bottom" (AA, 1953, p. 23). The meaning of "hitting bottom" remains problematic, particularly among researchers who focus on its fixed meaning (VanderWaal, Taxman, & Gurka-Ndanyi, 2008;Walters, 2002;Westreich & Leventhal, 2011). Denzin (1987) provided the succinct definition used in this article: "Bottom: Confronting one's alcoholic situation, finding it intolerable and surrendering to alcoholism.…”

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Hitting Bottom: Help Seeking Among Alcoholics Anonymous Members

Young

2011

Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions

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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members' self-reports ( N = 263) of "hitting bottom" and seeking help were analyzed using 1-way analysis of variance and chi-square analyses of 23 dependent variables. AA members self-identified a range of bottoms: high-bottom (36.1%), middle (44.5%), and low (19.4%). Whites were 2.4 times more likely than non-Whites to identify as high-bottoms. Lower bottoms were associated with multidrug use, constant drinking, and alcohol-related problems. High bottoms more likely entered AA via member introduction, and low bottoms more likely entered via court order. These findings indicate that individuals who are alcohol dependent might be helped earlier by identifying the initiation or acceleration of their substance use and facilitating relationships with those already in AA.

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Reforming Drug Treatment Services to Offenders: Cross-System Collaboration, Integrated Policies, and a Seamless Continuum of Care Model

Cited by 12 publications

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Inmate Prerelease Assessment (IPASS) Aftercare Placement Recommendation as a Predictor of Rural Inmate's 12-step Attendance and Treatment Entry Postrelease

Inmate Prerelease Assessment (IPASS) Aftercare Placement Recommendation as a Predictor of Rural Inmate's 12-step Attendance and Treatment Entry Postrelease

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Hitting Bottom: Help Seeking Among Alcoholics Anonymous Members

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