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Drug Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails, Drug Abuse Treatment Approaches, Evaluations, Special Issues, and Recommendations National Institute on Drug Abuse RESEARCH MONOGRAPH SERIES Drug Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails U.S. Department of Health and Human Services1 • Public1 Health Service8 • National Institutes of Health Drug Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails Editors: Carl G. Leukefeld, D.S.W. Frank M. Tims, Ph.D. NIDA Research Monograph 118 1992 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Public Health Service Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration National Institute on Drug Abuse 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857 For sale by te U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP. Washington, DC 20402-9328 ISBN 0-16-036155-9 ACKNOWLEDGMENT This monograph is based on the papers from a technical review on “Drug Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails” held on May 24-25, 1990, in Rockville, MD. The review meeting was sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. COPYRIGHT STATUS The National Institute on Drug Abuse has obtained permission from the copyright holders to reproduce certain previously published material as noted in the text. Further reproduction of this copyrighted material is permitted only as part of a reprinting of the entire publication or chapter. For any other use, the copyright holder’s permission is required. All other material in this volume except quoted passages from copyrighted sources is in the public domain and may be used or reproduced without permission from the Institute or the authors. Citation of the source IS appreciated. Opinions expressed in this volume are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or official policy of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or any other part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The U.S. Government does not endorse or favor any specific commercial product or company. Trade, proprietary, or company names appearing in this publication are used only because they are considered essential in the context of the studies reported herein. NIDA Research Monographs are indexed in the Index Medicus. They are selectively included in the coverage of American Statistics Index, BioSciences Information Service, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents, Psychological Abstracts, and Psychopharmacology Abstracts. DHHS publication number (ADM)92-1884 Printed 1992 ii Contents Page The Challenge of Drug Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails Frank M. Tims and Carl G. Leukefeld 1 Correctional Drug Abuse Treatment in the United States: An Overview Douglas S. Lipton, Gregory P. Falkin, and Harry K. Wexler 8 Program Models Barry S. Brown 31 Drug Treatment Services in Jails Roger H. Peters and Robert May II 38 HIV-1 Infection in the Correctional Setting David Vlahov 51 Drug Abuse Treatment Programs in the Federal Bureau of Prisons: Initiatives for the 1990s Donald W. Murray, Jr 62 Amity Righturn: A Demonstration Drug Abuse Treatment Program for Inmates and Parolees David L. Wineit, Rod Mullen, Lois L. Lowe, and Elizabeth A. Missakian 84 Substance Abuse Services in Juvenile Justice: The Washington Experience David Brenna 99 iii Florida Department of Corrections Substance Abuse Programs Wilson C. Bell, James G. Mitchell, Jennifer Bevino, Abbas Darabi, and Richard Nimer 1 10 Comprehensive System Development in Corrections for Drug-Abusing Offenders: The Wisconsin Department of Corrections Gerald L. Vigdal and Donald W. Stadler 126 Oregon Prison Drug Treatment Programs Gary Field 142 Outcome Evaluation of a Prison Therapeutic Community for Substance Abuse Treatment Harry K. Wexler, Gregory P. Falkin, Douglas S. Lipton, and Andrew B. Rosenblum 156 Obstacles to the Implementation and Evaluation of Drug Treatment Programs in Correctional Settings: Reviewing the Delaware KEY Experience James A. Inciardi, Steven S. Martin, Dorothy Lockwood, Robert M. Hooper, and Bruce M. Wald 176 Evaluation of In-Jail Methadone Maintenance: Preliminary Results Stephen Magura, Andrew Rosenblum, and Herman Joseph 192 Management of the Drug-Abusing Offender John Gregrich 211 A Coordinated Approach for Drug-Abusing Offenders: TASC and Parole Beth Weinman 232 Methodological Issues: Drug Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails Bennett W. Fletcher and Frank M. Tims . 246 Evaluation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Drug Treatment Programs Bernadette Pelissier and Dan McCarthy . 261 iv Directions for Practice and Research Carl G. Leukefeld and Frank M. Tims 279 List of NIDA Research Monographs 294 v The Challenge of Drug Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails Frank M. Tims and Carl G. Leukefeld INTRODUCTION Drug dependence and abuse among incarcerated populations is a stark reality that enormously complicates the task of rehabilitating offenders. Estimates of serious drug involvement among offenders points to the urgent need for effective interventions, and available indicators show drug use among arrestees to be at epidemic levels (Lipton et al., this volume). During the 1970s it was pointed out that only about half the Nation’s State prisons offered drug abuse treatment (Tims 1981), and only about one-quarter of all jails in the United States had any provision for treatment (Newman and Price 1976). In fact, a review of the National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Utilization Survey from 1976 through 1979 showed a decline in the number of available treatment slots in correctional institutions (Tims 1985). During the 1980s the prison population increased dramatically to more than half a million, and the overall prevalence of drug involvement among incarcerated offenders also rose markedly. There are numerous reasons for offering drug abuse treatment to these populations. First, there is the matter of institutional management. Newman and Price (1976) pointed out that sheriffs reported fewer administrative problems with inmates who received some treatment, usually detoxification, while in jail. Second, there was reduction in drug-seeking behavior by the incarcerated population, and third, jails and prisons offer an opportunity to engage the drug-dependent individual in a rehabilitation process. Thus, for many drug abusers, incarceration may be the only contact with treatment providers. The nature of drug dependence is a chronic, relapsing condition, and recovery is a continuing process. Although engagement in treatment may begin in a prison or jail setting, aftercare—or continuing care—is critically important. Thus, a model of treatment should include prerelease treatment, transitional care, and aftercare or continuing treatment. 1 NOTHING WORKS A common criticism of offender rehabilitation programs is that “nothing works”; that is, nothing has been shown to evoke such dramatic improvements as to satisfy the program critics. In fact, almost any student of programs that have been tried in correctional settings can point to some concrete achievement. Indeed, the case for treating those who are serving finite incarceration terms and who have some motivation to live drug-free, productive lives seems to be effective from the practitioner’s point of view. But evidence of program effectiveness is also noted from scientific studies. Amassing such evidence must be viewed in the context of the usual high relapse rates that are certain to be cited as indications that these interventions are not successful. It could even be argued that, given the complexity of the problems as well as the economic and social costs inherent in continued drug abuse after release from jail or prison, gains of the magnitude observed thus far more than justify the resources devoted to those programs. However, the evidence for treatment in general and treatment under legal pressure in particular is even more encouraging. For example, it has been shown that those entering community- based drug abuse programs under legal sanction do as well as those who enter voluntarily (Hubbard et al. 1989). Whether drug abuse treatment programs directed at incarcerated populations produce lasting change is one question that has been debated but never satisfactorily answered, although there are multiple examples of correctional programs attracting incarcerated clients into drug abuse treatment (Lipton et al., this volume; Wexler et al., this volume; Magura et al., this volume). THE CHALLENGE OF DEVELOPING RESPONSIVE TREATMENT PROGRAMS Developing viable and evaluable programs is a major challenge to those charged with the responsibility for treating drug abusers. As Lipton and colleagues (this volume), Magura and colleagues (this volume), and Fletcher and Tims (this volume) point out, this is no simple task. The program must have continuing organizational support, a conceptual basis, and clear objectives, all of which should feed into an evaluation design. The evaluation, in turn, can be the basis for program improvement. Several laudable attempts at such designs and evaluations of prerelease and aftercare programs were initiated in the 1970s. The most notable was at the Federal level, “Project TRAP” (Treatment and Rehabilitation of Addicted Parolees), with a prerelease component, a transitional component, and a community corrections (aftercare) component. Grants were given by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, to four States for controlled studies of TRAP models. Program service integration and evaluation were required, 2 and evaluation was to be conducted by an independent organization. However, the program did not have a fair trial because Federal budget cuts produced premature grant terminations. Another example is a Wisconsin prerelease demonstration program structured
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