Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2013
Does mandating offenders to treatment improve completion rates?
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 17 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- Predicting attrition of men with a history of violence from randomised clinical trials.Trials · 2023Trial
- A Pilot Study of a Brief Motivational Intervention for Incarcerated Drinkers.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2016Trial
- Retention on Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder in Justice-Involved Individuals: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Engagement and retention in a motivational, discovery, and transitional track based substance use disorder recovery program: evaluation, facilitators and barriers.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Article
- Sex disparities in outcome of medication-assisted therapy of opioid use disorder: Nationally representative outpatient clinic data.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Observational
- Sex disparities in outcome of medication-assisted therapy of opioid use disorder: Nationally representative study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- "It's not ever going to work, so why would I even try?": Black and Latino youths' perspectives on behavioral health treatment engagement during reentry after incarceration.Children and youth services review · 2023Article
- Factor Structure of the Brief Addiction Monitor in a Non-Veteran Substance Use Disorder Outpatient Treatment Sample.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- Psychosocial Interventions for Prisoners with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2022Article
- The effect of cannabis policies on treatment outcomes for cannabis use among U.S. adults.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Article
- Examination of referral source and discharge outcomes among women in residential substance use disorder treatment.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Article
- Examination of referral source and retention among women in residential substance use disorder treatment: a prospective follow-up study.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2021Article
- America's opioid crisis: the need for an integrated public health approach.Translational psychiatry · 2020Review
- Medication assisted treatment (MAT) in criminal justice settings as a double-edged sword: balancing novel addiction treatments and voluntary participation.Health & justice · 2020Article
- Retention and Treatment Outcome of Youth with Cannabis Use Disorder Referred By the Legal System.Adolescent psychiatry (Hilversum, Netherlands) · 2019Article
- Service supply chains for population health: Overcoming fragmentation of service delivery ecosystems.Learning health systems · 2019Article
- Abstinence at Successful Discharge in Publicly Funded Addiction Health Services.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2016Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
While it is known that community-based outpatient treatment for substance abusing offenders is effective, treatment completion rates are low and much of the prior research has been conducted with offenders in residential treatment or therapeutic communities. The aim of the present study was to assess whether offenders who are mandated to community-based outpatient treatment have better completion rates compared to those who enter treatment voluntarily. The 160 research participants were a heterogeneous group of substance abusers who were under various levels of criminal justice supervision (CJS) in the community. The participants were enrolled in an intensive outpatient program and were recruited into the study between July 2007 and October 2010. All offenders received weekly therapy sessions using a cognitive problem solving framework and 45% completed the 6 month treatment program. Interestingly, those who were mandated demonstrated less motivation at treatment entry, yet were more likely to complete treatment compared to those who were not court-ordered to treatment. While controlling for covariates known to be related to treatment completion, the logistic regression analyses demonstrated that court-ordered offenders were over 10 times more likely to complete treatment compared to those who entered treatment voluntarily (OR=10.9, CI=2.0-59.1, p=.006). These findings demonstrate that stipulated treatment for offenders may be an effective way to increase treatment compliance.
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