Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2013
Pilot trial of a recovery management intervention for heroin addicts released from compulsory rehabilitation in China.
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to reduce harms related to drug use among people who experience incarceration: systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Public health · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions for female drug-using offenders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Leveraging the U.S. Criminal Justice System to Access Women for HIV Interventions.AIDS and behavior · 2017Pooled it
- Pharmacological interventions for drug-using offenders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of interventions to improve the health of persons during imprisonment and in the year after release.American journal of public health · 2015Pooled it
- HIV prevention for adults with criminal justice involvement: a systematic review of HIV risk-reduction interventions in incarceration and community settings.American journal of public health · 2014Pooled it
- Retention of participants in medication-assisted programs in low- and middle-income countries: an international systematic review.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2014Pooled it
- Methadone at tapered doses for the management of opioid withdrawal.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Effects of a recovery management intervention on Chinese heroin users' community recovery through the mediation effect of enhanced service utilization.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2015Trial
- Interventions for drug-using offenders with co-occurring mental health problems.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Review
- Are Non-Pharmacological Interventions Effective in Reducing Drug Use and Criminality? A Systematic and Meta-Analytical Review with an Economic Appraisal of These Interventions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Review
- "Overconfidence" versus "helplessness": A qualitative study on abstinence self-efficacy of drug users in a male compulsory drug detention center in China.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2016Article
- Barriers to community-based drug dependence treatment: implications for police roles, collaborations and performance indicators.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2016Article
- High-risk behaviors after release from incarceration among people who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Beyond bricks and mortar: recent research on substance use disorder recovery management.Current psychiatry reports · 2014Review
- The globalization of addiction research: capacity-building mechanisms and selected examples.Harvard review of psychiatryReview
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
China faces the challenge of dual epidemics of drug use and HIV/AIDS. Despite the high relapse rate among heroin addicts released from compulsory rehabilitation facilities, there are few programs available in China to assist these addicts in the community. We pilot-tested in China a Recovery Management Intervention (RMI) program designed to facilitate early detection of relapse and prompt linkage from compulsory rehabilitation to the community and, if participants relapse, to community-based methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs. One hundred heroin addicts were randomly assigned to either the Standard Care group (n = 50) or the RMI group (n = 50). At the end of the 3-month trial, participants in the RMI group, relative to the standard care group, demonstrated positive outcomes in recidivism due to relapse (0 vs. 6%, p = .08; d = 0.354), MMT participation (8% vs. 0, p = 0.06; d = 0.417), and employment (33% vs. 2%, p < .001; d = 0.876), although no difference was found in urine testing results (8.5% vs. 8.7%; d = 0.013) among interviewed participants. These pilot study results were based on a small sample size and short-term observation, suggesting the need for more research to further improve and test RMI effectiveness with larger samples over a longer period of time in order to provide evidence in support of RMI as an effective strategy for community reintegration among addicts released from rehabilitation facilities in China.
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