Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2021
Peer recovery services for persons returning from prison: Pilot randomized clinical trial investigation of SUPPORT.
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of peer recovery support services for substance use disorders: A systematic review of healthcare utilization, behavioral health, and engagement outcomes.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Pooled it
- Drug use among people in prison: A global review of epidemiology, harms and interventions.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Peer support services for individuals with health-related needs reentering the community after incarceration: a scoping review of program elements and outcomes.Health & justice · 2025Pooled it
- What We Know About the Peer Workforce and Economic Evaluation for Peer Recovery Support Services: A Systematic Review.Substance use & addiction journal · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce harms related to drug use among people who experience incarceration: systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Public health · 2024Pooled it
- Mobile enhanced prevention support for people leaving jail: examining smartphone app integration with peer mentors and contingency management for a population at risk of HIV.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Peer Recovery Coaches for Addiction Recovery Among Indigenous Americans.Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses AssociationTrial
- Civil society in action: insights into volunteer-based community mentoring for reentry support.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Recovery support services as part of the continuum of care for alcohol or drug use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Exploring the Lived Experiences of Medication for Opioid use Disorder Treatment: A Qualitative Study among a Crowdsourced Convenience Sample.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
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- Peer Recovery Support Services and Recovery Coaching for Substance Use Disorder: A Systematic Review.Current addiction reports · 2025Article
- Contextualizing medications for opioid use disorder and peer support service provision in the probation system with implementation science.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Community-based substance use treatment programs for reentering justice-involved adults: A scoping review.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- "Shared experience makes this all possible": documenting the guiding principles of peer-led services for people released from prison.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Scales for participant Alliance with Recovery Coach (SPARC): initial development and pilot test.Addiction research & theory · 2024Article
- Contextualizing Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Peer Support Service Provision in the Probation System with Implementation Science.Research square · 2023Article
- Peer Health Navigation Experiences Before and After Prison Release Among People With Opioid Use Disorder.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Finding help and hope in a peer-led reentry service hub near a detention centre: A process evaluation.PloS one · 2023Article
- Barriers and facilitators to opioid agonist treatment (OAT) engagement among individuals released from federal incarceration into the community in Ontario, Canada.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previously incarcerated persons with substance use disorder (SUD) need recovery supports, given the overrepresentation of this population in prison and community supervision. Peer support programs have the potential to fill gaps in postrelease support for persons with SUD. To assess the effectiveness of peer support approaches, this pilot study randomized access to peer recovery coaches within a well-established community reentry program. We examined several proximal outcomes to determine potential mechanisms of action, along with several exploratory outcomes. While attrition due to re-incarceration, death, and program disengagement was high, our findings suggest that those who received peer recovery coach support in the reentry program had recovery-based improvements, including improved self-reported mental and physical health and reductions in substance use behaviors. The treatment group also saw improvements in measures of treatment motivation and self-efficacy. Both groups saw similar positive trends in some outcomes, likely due to the relative success of the well-established reentry program regardless of the inclusion of peer support coaches. This study contributes lessons learned and potential mechanisms of action to limited research on the effectiveness of peer recovery supports for reentry populations with SUD.
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