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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) |
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Information provided by: | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00664092 |
The primary aim of this project is to study more closely the role played by post-release aftercare in the outcomes of criminal offenders who received in-prison substance abuse treatment. Prison-based therapeutic communities (TC) (Pelissier et al., 2001; Wexler, 1995) have demonstrated efficacy, especially when combined with post-release TC aftercare (Melnick et al., 2001). The aims of this project are important from a public health perspective as there may be treatment matching, case management, and financing factors that could be manipulated to enhance the cost-effectiveness of community-based substance abuse treatment for offenders leaving prison. It is possible that both TC and Oxford House(OH) aftercare modalities increase abstinence social support, self-efficacy, and employment, which mediate reductions in drug use, reincarceration, and health problems, but overall benefits are likely to be greater for TCs because they employ professional services and empirically based behavioral strategies. However, OHs might have advantages compared to more traditional post-incarceration modalities (e.g., low costs). Bringing scientific methods to the examination of TCs and the OH community-based recovery models for addiction might help to identify the "active ingredients" of these recovery settings.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Usual Aftercare Oxford House Therapeutic Community |
Other: Residential |
Phase II |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Prevention, Randomized, Single Blind (Caregiver), Factorial Assignment, Efficacy Study |
Official Title: | Evaluating Alternative Aftercare Models for Ex-Offenders |
Estimated Enrollment: | 300 |
Study Start Date: | October 2007 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | July 2012 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | July 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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1: No Intervention
Usual Aftercare Condition
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2: Experimental
Oxford House Condition
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Other: Residential
living in a democratic, resident-run setting
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3: Experimental
Therapeutic Community Condition
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Other: Residential
Professionally-run substance abuse recovery setting
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Contact: Leonard A Jason, Ph.D. | 773-325-2018 | ljason@depaul.edu |
United States, Illinois | |
DePaul University | Recruiting |
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60614 | |
Principal Investigator: Leonard A Jason, Ph.D. |
Principal Investigator: | Leonard A Jason, Ph.D. | DePaul University |
Study Director: | Dave Mueller, Ph.D. | DePaul University |
Responsible Party: | DePaul University ( Lenny Jason, Director ) |
Study ID Numbers: | LJ070306PSY-C1 |
Study First Received: | April 18, 2008 |
Last Updated: | April 18, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00664092 |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
Substance Abuse Ex-Offenders Substance Abuse Recovery |