Trial reportThe American journal on addictions
Postprison release HIV-risk behaviors in a randomized trial of methadone treatment for prisoners.
Trial report in The American journal on addictions. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00378079 (Methadone Maintenance for Prisoners), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Methadone Maintenance for Prisoners
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infection, and Substance Use Continuum of Care Interventions Among Criminal Justice-Involved Black Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Systematic Review.American journal of public health · 2018Pooled 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
- HIV-Risk Behavior Among Adults with Opioid Use Disorder During 12 Months Following Pre-trial Detention: Results from a Randomized Trial of Methadone Treatment.AIDS and behavior · 2021Trial
- Longitudinal analysis of HIV-risk behaviors of participants in a randomized trial of prison-initiated buprenorphine.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2019Trial
- Design and implementation of a factorial randomized controlled trial of methadone maintenance therapy and an evidence-based behavioral intervention for incarcerated people living with HIV and opioid dependence in Malaysia.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
- Examining predictors of substance use and treatment adequacy among formerly incarcerated individuals with a history of opioid and cocaine use: research protocol.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Opioid-specific medication-assisted therapy and its impact on criminal justice and overdose outcomes.Campbell systematic reviews · 2022Article
- Recidivism and mortality after in-jail buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Access to Harm Reduction Treatment Among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals During the COVID-19 Era.Health security · 2021Article
- Time Since Release from Incarceration and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Women: The Potential Protective Role of Committed Partners During Re-entry.AIDS and behavior · 2015Article
- Ukrainian prisoners and community reentry challenges: implications for transitional care.International journal of prisoner health · 2013Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThis secondary analysis examined the impact of methadone initiated in prison on postrelease HIV risk behaviors. The parent study was a three-group randomized clinical trial in which participants received drug abuse counseling in prison and were randomly assigned to: (1) passive referral to substance abuse treatment upon release; (2) guaranteed methadone treatment admission upon release; and (3) methadone in prison and guaranteed continuation of methadone upon release.
methodsParticipants were 211 adult males with preincarceration histories of opiate dependence. The AIDS Risk Assessment was administered at baseline (in prison) and at 1-, 3-, 6-, and 12-month postrelease. Data were analyzed for the entire sample (N = 211) as well as the subsamples who reported injecting drugs in the 30 days prior to incarceration (n = 131) and who reported having unprotected sex in that time frame (n = 144) using generalized linear mixed model on an intent-to-treat basis.
resultsThere were no significant changes in sex- or drug-risk by Condition over Time. There were significant Time and Condition main effects for the total sample as well as the injector subsample for drug-risk behaviors. There were no significant Condition main effects for HIV sex-risk behaviors, but there were significant Time main effects.
conclusionsMethadone initiated in prison or immediately postrelease is associated with reduced HIV drug-risk compared to counseling in prison without methadone and passive referral to treatment at release. Participation in several drug- and sex-risk behaviors also showed significant declines during the postrelease time periods.
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