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The range of medical, psychological, and social services designed to help individuals reduce or stop substance use and manage substance use disorders. Treatment may include assessment, counselling and behavioural therapies, medication-assisted treatment, withdrawal management, and support for co-occurring mental or physical health conditions. Effective treatment is typically person-centred and evidence-informed, and may be provided in outpatient, community, or residential settings. Treatment aims to improve health and functioning, reduce substance-related harms, and support individuals in moving toward recovery and long-term wellbeing.
Treatment Combinations: The Joint Effects of Multiple Evidence-Based Interventions on Recidivism Reduction
ABSTRACT
Evidence-based interventions have been implemented within penal institutions to reduce the propensity of postrelease reoffending across states. Traditional program evaluations explore these interventions and demonstrate treatment...
Outcomes of Psychological Therapies for Prisoners With Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
ABSTRACT
Objective: Prisoners worldwide have substantial mental health needs, but the efficacy of psychological therapy in prisons is unknown. We aimed to systematically review psychological therapies with mental health outcomes in...
A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Case Management for Substance Use Disorders: A Recovery Perspective
Background: Case management is a client-centered approach to improve the coordination and continuity of service delivery, especially for persons with substance use disorders (SUD) and multiple and complex support needs. This intervention...
A systematic review of post-release programs for women exiting prison with substance-use disorders: assessing current programs and weighing the evidence
ABSTRACT
Background
The rising rates of women in prison is a serious public health issue. Unlike men, women in prison are characterised by significant histories of trauma, poor mental health, and high rates of substance use disorders...
Interventions at the Transition from Prison to the Community for Prisoners with Mental Illness: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT
Prisoners have high rates of mental illness and the transition from prison to the community is a problematic time for the provision of mental health services and a range of negative outcomes have been identified in this period. A...
Critical Connections: Getting People Leaving Prison and Jail the Mental Health Care and Substance Use Treatment They Need
This Executive Summary provides information on what policymakers need to know about ensuring people leaving prison and jail receive the mental health care, substance use treatment, and health care coverage they need.
Community-based substance use treatment programs for reentering justice-involved adults: A scoping review
Abstract
Introduction
For adults involved with the criminal justice system who are reentering their communities post-incarceration, there is a large need for community-based substance use treatment. Little is known, however, about the...
Criminal reactions to drug-using offenders: A systematic review of the effect of treatment and/or punishment on reduction of drug use and/or criminal recidivism
The association between substance use and crime is very common, but complex. Several countries have found strategies to face drug abuse and criminality that may exist associated to it, seeking to reduce overcrowded prisons and to promote...
Addictions in Potential Sperm Donors: What is Possible to Control?
INTRODUCTION: Third-party sperm donation represents the sole viable option for conception for a considerable number of infertile couples. The donation process is predicated on ensuring the high quality and safety of the donated cells. While...
AddictologyIssue 3/2024
Effectiveness of Mental Health Courts in Reducing Recidivism: A Meta-Analysis
Abstract
Objective:
Mental health courts (MHCs) were developed to address the overrepresentation of adults with mental illnesses in the U.S. criminal justice system through diversion into community-based treatment. Research on MHCs has...
Augmenting substance use treatment in the drug court: A pilot randomized trial of peer recovery support
Abstract
Introduction
Peer recovery specialist (PRS) support has been used to varying degrees in community substance use and mental health treatment for a number of years. Although there has been some evidence of positive PRS impacts on...
Development of Curricula and Sustainability of University-Based Master’s Programmes in Addiction Studies: A Pilot Comparative Study
INTRODUCTION:
Addiction studies programmes are very diverse around the world. To respond to the public health perspective needs to decrease problems related to drug use, empowering the addiction workforce in a sustainable way is a relevant...
AddictologyIssue 3/2024
NIJ’s Multisite Evaluation of Prosecutor‑Led Diversion Programs: Strategies, Impacts, and Cost‑Effectiveness
Executive Summary
In recent years, a growing number of prosecutors have established pretrial diversion programs, either pre-filing—before charges are filed with the court—or post-filing—after the court process begins but before a...
Use of the Sequential Intercept Model as an Approach to Decriminalization of People With Serious Mental Illness
The Sequential Intercept Model provides a conceptual framework forc ommunities to use when considering the interface between the criminal justice and mental health systems as they address concerns about criminalization of people with mental...
A Multisite Study of the Prevalence of Serious Mental Illness, PTSD, and Substance Use Disorders of Women in Jail
Abstract
Objectives
This multisite study aimed to answer the following research questions about women in urban and rural jails. First, what is the current and lifetime prevalence of serious mental illness (major depressive disorder...
Global Estimates of the Prevalence of Depression among Prisoners: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis
Background. Prison populations tend to be marginalized and disadvantaged of the rights and freedoms that other people in the community benefit from. Their separation from families, a narrow room and lack of privacy in the prison, violence...
Indicators of Mental Health Problems Reported by Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2011–12
About 1 in 7 state and federal prisoners (14%) and 1 in 4 jail inmates (26%) reported experiences that met the threshold for serious psychological distress (SPD) in the 30 days prior to a survey conducted between February 2011 and May 2012...
The prevalence of comorbid serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders in prison populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Summary
Background
Comorbid mental illnesses and substance use disorders are associated with adverse criminal, social, and health outcomes. Yet, their burden is not reliably known among prison populations. We therefore aimed to estimate...
Prevalence of severe mental illness among people in prison across 43 countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Summary
Background
Prison populations have been increasing worldwide. Previous studies suggest that there is a high burden of psychiatric morbidity in people in prison, but, to our knowledge, the last published meta-analysis of prevalence...
Webinar on Students Response to SUD
Over 2000 students from 10 Universities and colleges participated in a webinar on "Students' Response to Substance Use Disorder", hosted by Ecolink Institute on June 26 in connection with the International Day Against Drug Abuse. Dr...
