ArticleAmerican journal of public health2013
Offender diversion into substance use disorder treatment: the economic impact of California's proposition 36.
Article in American journal of public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Economic benefits of substance use disorder treatment: A systematic literature review of economic evaluation studies from 2003 to 2021.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Pooled it
- The criminal justice system in alcohol use treatment: a nationwide analysis of racial disparities in treatment referral and completion.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Article
- Impulsivity, trauma history, and interoceptive awareness contribute to completion of a criminal diversion substance use treatment program for women.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The Massachusetts public health data warehouse and the opioid epidemic: A qualitative study of perceived strengths and limitations for advancing research.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- The effect of a methadone reformulation on opioid agonist treatment outcomes: A population-based study in British Columbia, Canada, 2013-14.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- Responding to the opioid crisis in North America and beyond: recommendations of the Stanford-Lancet Commission.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Review
- Substance misuse and community supervision: A systematic review of the literature.Forensic science international. Mind and law · 2020Review
- A qualitative study of big data and the opioid epidemic: recommendations for data governance.BMC medical ethics · 2020Article
- Health outcomes and cost-effectiveness of diversion programs for low-level drug offenders: A model-based analysis.PLoS medicine · 2020Article
- Alternatives to Arrest for Illicit Opioid Use: A Joint Criminal Justice and Healthcare Treatment Collaboration.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2020Article
- Only One In Twenty Justice-Referred Adults In Specialty Treatment For Opioid Use Receive Methadone Or Buprenorphine.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2017Article
- Estimating State Transitions for Opioid Use Disorders.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2017Article
- The costs of crime during and after publicly funded treatment for opioid use disorders: a population-level study for the state of California.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Article
- Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California's Proposition 36.Journal of quantitative criminology · 2017Article
- Dynamics in the costs of criminality among opioid dependent individuals.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
- The effects of participation level on recidivism: a study of drug treatment courts using propensity score matching.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2014Article
- Integration of substance use disorder services with primary care: health center surveys and qualitative interviews.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe determined the costs and savings attributable to the California Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), which mandated probation or continued parole with substance abuse treatment in lieu of incarceration for adult offenders convicted of nonviolent drug offenses and probation and parole violators.
methodsWe used individually linked, population-level administrative data to define intervention and control cohorts of offenders meeting SACPA eligibility criteria. Using multivariate difference-in-differences analysis, we estimated the effect of SACPA implementation on the total and domain-specific costs to state and county governments, controlling for fixed individual and county characteristics and changes in crime at the county level.
resultsThe additional costs of treatment were more than offset by savings in other domains, primarily in the costs of incarceration. We estimated the statewide policy effect as an adjusted savings of $2317 (95% confidence interval = $1905, $2730) per offender over a 30-month postconviction period. SACPA implementation resulted in greater incremental cost savings for Blacks and Hispanics, who had markedly higher rates of conviction and incarceration.
conclusionsThe monetary benefits to government exceeded the additional costs of SACPA implementation and provision of treatment.
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