Trial reportThe American journal on addictions2016
An independent replication of the Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach with justice-involved youth.
Trial report in The American journal on addictions, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04901312 (Identifying an Effective and Cost Beneficial Approach to Preventing OUD in Justice-Involved Youth), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Identifying an Effective and Cost Beneficial Approach to Preventing OUD in Justice-Involved Youth
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Use of Noncommercial Parent-Focused mHealth Interventions for Behavioral Problems in Youth: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions for female drug-using offenders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Evidence Base on Outpatient Behavioral Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use, 2014-2017: Outcomes, Treatment Delivery, and Promising Horizons.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
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- Randomized controlled internal pilot trial of a diversion programme for adolescents in police custody who possess illicit substances.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2024Trial
- Pay-for-performance as a cost-effective implementation strategy: results from a cluster randomized trial.Implementation science : IS · 2018Trial
- Addressing Substance Use Disorders Among System-Involved Girls.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2026Review
- Clarity and consistency in government-funded implementation strategies associated with greater evidence-based practice reach: a mixed-method comparative case study.Implementation science : IS · 2025Article
- The Landscape of Randomized Controlled Trials for Behavioral Health-Focused Psychosocial Interventions for Youth in the Juvenile Legal System: A Systematic Review.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Predictive Validity of the e-Connect Suicide Risk Classification Algorithm in Youth on Probation.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Utility of substance-free alternatives in treating and preventing harmful substance use: A narrative review of the translational research spectrum.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2025Review
- Development of the Positive Outcomes through Supported Transition (POST) opioid preventive intervention for youth in the legal system: Study protocol for a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Prevention of Opioid Use and Disorder Among Youth Involved in the Legal System: Innovation and Implementation of Four Studies Funded by the NIDA HEAL Initiative.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Treatment completion among justice-involved youth engaged in behavioral health treatment studies in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2022Review
- Impact of Continuing Care on Recovery From Substance Use Disorder.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2021Review
- What influences evidence-based treatment sustainment after implementation support ends? A mixed method study of the adolescent-community reinforcement approach.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Article
- Interventions for drug-using offenders with co-occurring mental health problems.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Review
- The Volunteer Recovery Support for Adolescents (VRSA) experiment: Recruiting, retaining, training, and supervising volunteers to implement recovery monitoring and support services.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Article
- Measuring sustainment of an evidence based treatment for adolescent substance use.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Article
- Predicting evidence-based treatment sustainment: results from a longitudinal study of the Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach.Implementation science : IS · 2017Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesSubstance use disorders among youth remain a serious public health problem. Although research has overwhelmingly supported the use of evidenced-based interventions, one of the primary limitations of the current evidence base is that for the vast majority of treatments, the developers of the treatments are also the ones conducting research on them, raising the possibility of allegiance bias.
methodsThe present study was an independently conducted randomized controlled trial (n = 126) comparing an evidenced-based treatment for adolescent substance use, Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA), and assertive continuing care (ACC), to services as usual (SAU) provided by a juvenile probation department. Latent growth curve modeling was used to compare the treatments on change in substance use assessed by the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN) at baseline and 3, 6, and 12 months following treatment entry.
resultsAll youth evidenced a substantial reduction in substance use frequency and substance-related problems following treatment; however, youth treated with A-CRA/ACC evidenced a substantially greater decrease in substance-related problems. CONCLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: Results are consistent with studies conducted by A-CRA/ACC model developers supporting the effectiveness of the clinical approach and, because the outcomes resulted from an independent replication, are encouraging for the transportation potential of A-CRA/ACC.
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