Residential Treatment for Women Parolees Following Prison-Based Drug Treatment: Treatment Experiences, Needs and Services, Outcomes

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL L. PRENDERGAST ◽  
JEAN WELLISCH ◽  
MAMIE MEE WONG
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Residential Treatment ◽  
Relapse Prevention ◽  
The Other ◽  
California Institute ◽  
Substance Abuse Program ◽  
Complete Treatment ◽  
Treatment Entry ◽  
Prevention Training

This article reports on an evaluation of the community residential phase of a prison-based program for drug-using women, the Forever Free Substance Abuse Program at the California Institute for Women. Three groups were interviewed: graduates from Forever Free who entered residential treatment, graduates who did not enter residential treatment, and women who applied to Forever Free but were not able to enter. The study assessed treatment experiences, needs and services received, and drug use and parole outcomes 1 year after the women were released from prison. Briefly, findings indicate that the women's needs for relapse prevention training and drug treatment were not met, women often did not complete treatment, and women who participated in community residential treatment had lower self-reported drug use rates and higher levels of successful parole discharge than women in the other two groups. Multiple needs beyond drug treatment must be addressed to increase treatment entry and improve retention in programs.

A Holistic Model for Drug Treatment Evaluation

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darold A. Treffert ◽  
Michael Sack ◽  
Ann C. Krueger ◽  
Michael Florek
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Residential Treatment ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Treatment Evaluation ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Treatment Area ◽  
Holistic Model ◽  
Evaluation Approach

Increasingly, and appropriately, drug dependency is being viewed as a problem with people rather than simply a problem with chemicals (Treffert, 1971). Comprehensive, multi-dimensional, “different strokes for different folks” approaches have largely replaced single entity, uni-dimensional programs (Glasscote, et al., 1972). As evident and as commendable as that movement and direction is in the treatment area, evaluation efforts are still locked into the use of a single, uni-dimensional, and solitary measure—the presence or absence of drug use or abuse following discharge. If it makes sense to look beyond drugs in treatment, then it makes sense as well to look beyond the return to drug use or abuse as the sole measure of effectiveness of drug programs. This paper describes a holistic, multi-dimensional, evaluation approach to measuring effectiveness of drug treatment programs which does not ignore, but does not focus entirely upon, the return to drug use or abuse as the sole measure of effectiveness. This evaluation tool has been in use for twelve (12) months in the Tellurian Community, a 38 bed residential treatment program for the seriously dependent drug abuser.

scholarly journals HIV Sexual and Drug-Use Risk in Drug-Dependent Pregnant Patients in Comprehensive Drug Treatment

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Hendrée E. Jones ◽  
Wendee M. Wechsberg ◽  
Kevin E. O'Grady ◽  
Michelle Tuten
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Risk Markers ◽  
Housing Status ◽  
Hiv Risks ◽  
Treatment Entry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Drug Dependent ◽  
Abuse Treatment

This secondary analysis study investigated HIV sexual and drug-use risk in drug-dependent pregnant patients over the first month postrandomization to reinforcement-based treatment (RBT) () or usual care (UC) (). Analysis of primary outcomes had indicated that RBT participants spent significantly longer time in treatment and recovery housing than UC participants. The present study examined the ability of 9 risk markers—age, race, estimated gestational age at treatment entry, lifetime substance abuse treatment episodes, history of prostitution charges, history of serious depression, current heroin injection status, current housing status, and current partner substance use—to predict changes in HIV risks. Sexual risk declined for participant subgroups with prostitution-charge histories and unstable housing. Drug-use risk declined for heroin injectors and nondepressed participants. A relationship was found between number of lifetime drug treatment episodes and sexual and drug-use risk. The role of risk markers in the response of drug-dependent pregnant women to drug treatment require attention.

The Effect of Drug Use, Drug Treatment Participation, and Treatment Completion on Probationer Recidivism

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth M. Huebner ◽  
Jennifer Cobbina
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Treatment Completion ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Proportional Hazard ◽  
Treatment Participation ◽  
Treatment Provision ◽  
Criminal Histories ◽  
Complete Treatment ◽  
Using Data

The prevalence of drug use among probationers, and the entire offender population, has been well documented. Numerous drug treatment modalities have been shown to reduce recidivism among this population; however, analyses of programmatic success are often based on a subset of offenders who complete treatment. Less is known about individuals who fail to complete treatment. The goal of the current study is to consider the interaction of drug use, drug treatment provision, and treatment completion on recidivism using data from the 2000 Illinois Probation Outcome Study. Findings from a series of proportional hazard models indicate that probationers who failed to complete treatment were more likely to be rearrested in the four years following discharge from probation, even when compared to individuals who needed treatment but did not enroll. Moreover, probationers who failed to complete treatment had more serious criminal histories and fewer ties to society. The research has important implications for the measurement of treatment provision in studies of recidivism, in specific, and more generally for the need to engage and retain probationers in drug treatment.

scholarly journals Hidden need for drug treatment services: measuring levels of problematic drug use in the North West of England

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Beynon ◽  
M. A. Bellis ◽  
T. Millar ◽  
P. Meier ◽  
R. Thomson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
North West ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
The North ◽  
Problematic Drug

scholarly journals The Orchard Birds of an Illinois Summer

1921 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-10) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Stephen Forbes ◽  
Alfred Gross
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Complete Treatment ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Many

The widely separated residences of the present authors, one of us living in Maine and the other in Illinois, and the many engrossing preoccupations of both, have made it impossible until now for us to have the personal conferences or to provide for the cooperation necessary to a complete treatment of our subject ; and it is with pleasure that we at last find ourselves in a position to work together through the mass of tables long ago made ready, and to avail ourselves, in their discussion, of the copious field notes and valuable reminiscenses of Professor Gross, often quite essential to an interpretation of our data. We now hope to prepare, without undue delay, a series of papers, the first of which is here presented.

scholarly journals ”Jag kunde bara slåss” Förklaringar och vändningar i tidigare kriminella kvinnors personliga berättelser

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wästerfors ◽  
Hanna Edgren ◽  
André Grigoriadis
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Personal Stories

”Fighting was the only thing I was good at”– Accounts and biographical turns in previously criminal women’s personal storiesToday’s narrative criminology offers a more nuanced approach to understanding crime than many previous approaches. In this article we draw on personal stories from four middle-aged women with criminal experiences to explore some analytic tracks in this area. First, we show how recognizable sad tales, employed by the women to account for previous crimes and drug use, are supplemented by incorporated aspects of happy tales, as well as reflexive markers of storytelling and ”accounts of accounts”. The women identify their formerly active neutralizations, and they account for why they used them. Second, we refine an analysis of biographical turning points by focusing details that complicate the points at issue. Life changes are narrated as more uncertain, oscillating, long lasting and educational than might be expected. ”Doing motherhood” and a Meadian story of taking the role of the other are conspicuous; the narrators try to depict their lives from their children’s point of view. Having a child and, eventually, caring for it is attributed a life changing significance.

Drug Use by Pregnant Women

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda C. Fentiman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Prenatal Care ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Substance Use And Abuse ◽  
Weak Evidence

This chapter examines the use of drugs—both legal and illegal–by pregnant women, noting increased medical and legal supervision of pregnancy and women’s substance use and abuse. Many states require health care professionals to report pregnant women who admit to, or are suspected of, using alcohol or other drugs. The result can be involuntary detention commitment for “treatment.” Women have been prosecuted for homicide after they suffer a stillbirth despite weak evidence that the stillbirth was caused by drug use. Prosecution of these women is counterproductive, because it drives pregnant drug users underground, away from both prenatal care and drug treatment.

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