Compulsory Community-Based Substance Abuse Treatment and the Mentally Ill Criminal Offender

The current study examined the relationship between mental health status and 18-month follow-up rearrest data of 191 probationers remanded to 4 months of treatment at a corrections-operated community-based residential substance abuse program. Probationers completed the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II), which classified 51% with DSM-III-R Axis I and 79% with Axis II disorders. Presence of these psychopathology and personality diagnoses was associated with rearrest after discharge from treatment. After controlling for sociodemographic background variables, arrest history, and substance use, the diagnoses of drug dependence and dysthymia were found to be significant risk factors for probationer rearrest following treatment.

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Probation and Parole

Encyclopedia of Social Work ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.307 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Jeffrey A. Butts

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Substance Abuse Treatment ◽

Community Service ◽

Workforce Development ◽

Electronic Monitoring ◽

Community Based ◽

Criminal Offenders ◽

Probation And Parole ◽

Abuse Treatment

Community-based supervision allows the legal system to hold criminal offenders accountable for their behavior without the significant costs and potential harms associated with incarceration. When offenders are placed on probation (in lieu of incarceration) or parole (as a follow-up to incarceration), they are also usually involved in other programs as well, including victim or offender mediation, substance abuse treatment, workforce development, restitution, community service, and electronic monitoring.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Association of race and age with treatment attendance and completion among adult marijuana users in community-based substance abuse treatment.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.718311923.793492346 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Dan Blazer

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Substance Abuse Treatment ◽

Community Based ◽

Treatment Attendance ◽

Abuse Treatment

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Social Disadvantage and Economic Hardship as Predictors of Follow-Up Addiction Severity after Substance Abuse Treatment: Does Referral to Treatment by the Criminal Justice System Matter?

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly ◽

10.1080/07347324.2015.982463 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 6-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Elizabeth A. Wahler

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Substance Abuse Treatment ◽

Criminal Justice System ◽

Justice System ◽

Economic Hardship ◽

Social Disadvantage ◽

Addiction Severity ◽

Abuse Treatment

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Discriminating between Substance Abusers with Single and Dual Diagnoses Using MMPI Profiles and the MAC Andrews Alcoholism Scale: Axis I and Axis II Subtypes

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1988.63.3.985 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 985-986 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ronald H. Rozensky ◽

Barbara Neirick ◽

Gary M. Slotnick ◽

Debra Morse

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Dual Diagnosis ◽

Substance Abusers ◽

Substance Abusing ◽

Psychiatric Diagnoses ◽

Axis Ii ◽

Heterogeneous Nature ◽

Dual Diagnoses ◽

Axis I

The MacAndrews Scale of the MMPI differentiated 21 dual-diagnosis substance abusers with a DSM-III—R, Axis I diagnosis from a group of 21 single-diagnosis substance abusers and 18 dual-diagnosis substance abusers with an Axis II diagnosis. Subjects were 50 substance-abuse only and 39 dual-diagnosis, hospitalized men. Research must take into account the heterogeneous nature of psychiatric diagnoses within the substance-abusing population.

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Neuropsychological correlates of adolescent substance abuse: Four-year outcomes

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society ◽

10.1017/s1355617799566010 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 5 (6) ◽

pp. 481-493 ◽

Cited By ~ 114

Author(s):

SUSAN F. TAPERT ◽

SANDRA A. BROWN

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Substance Use ◽

Drug Withdrawal ◽

Neuropsychological Functioning ◽

Treatment Programs ◽

Drug Involvement ◽

Abuse Treatment ◽

Neuropsychological Impairments ◽

The Relationship

Alcohol and other drug use are common in youth, but neurocognitive sequelae are unclear. This study examines the relationship between neuropsychological functioning and protracted substance use in adolescence. One hundred fifteen adolescents, ages 13 to 19 years, were recruited from inpatient substance abuse treatment programs and followed for 4 years. Adolescents were administered a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests and evaluated on substance use involvement during treatment, and at 6-month, 1-year, 2-year, and 4-year follow-up time points. Protracted substance abuse over the 4 years of follow-up was associated with significantly poorer subsequent functioning on tests of attention. In addition, alcohol and drug withdrawal accounted for significant variance in visuospatial functioning, above and beyond demographic, educational, and health variables in detoxified late adolescents and young adults. Results suggest that alcohol and drug withdrawal may be a more powerful marker of protracted neuropsychological impairments than other indices of youthful alcohol and drug involvement. (JINS, 1999, 5, 481–493.)

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