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Integration of the Therapeutic Workplace in Drug Court
This study has been completed.
First Received: January 22, 2008   Last Updated: February 4, 2008   History of Changes
Sponsored by: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Information provided by: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00607360
  Purpose

Drug Courts were developed as a therapeutic alternative to incarceration of drug-involved offenders by providing 'judicially supervised' drug abuse treatment and probation for nonviolent offenders in lieu of criminal prosecution and incarceration. Outcome studies have shown that drug courts have modest effects on participation in drug abuse treatment, drug use, and employment. The Therapeutic Workplace intervention is an effective employment-based treatment that integrates abstinence reinforcement contingencies in a work setting, intended to treat individuals with histories of drug addiction and chronic unemployment. Under this intervention, drug abuse patients are hired and paid to work. To promote abstinence, patients are required to provide drug-free urine samples to gain and maintain daily access in the workplace. In this way, patients can work and earn salary, but only as long as they remain drug abstinent. Patients using drugs and lacking job skills participate in an initial training phase to initiate abstinence and establish computer data entry skills. Once abstinent and skilled, patients are hired into an income-producing Therapeutic Workplace data entry business. Given that many drug court participants suffer from long histories of drug addiction and unemployment, the Therapeutic Workplace could be ideal for this population. This proposes of this clinical trial is to evaluate the Therapeutic Workplace intervention in a Drug Court.


Condition Intervention Phase
Drug Addiction
Behavioral: Therapeutic Workplace Intervention
Phase I

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment, Randomized, Open Label, Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title: Integration of the Therapeutic Workplace in Drug Court

Further study details as provided by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA):

Enrollment: 59
Study Start Date: August 2004
Study Completion Date: July 2007
Arms Assigned Interventions
Standard Drug Court: No Intervention
Participants received standard services from drug court
Drug Court plus Therapeutic Workplace: Experimental
Participants receive standard drug court services plus therapeutic workplace intervention
Behavioral: Therapeutic Workplace Intervention

Therapeutic workplace intervention is intended for individuals with drug addiction and chronic unemployment.

Participants are invited to participate in work and receive salary for participation and productivity contingent upon drug abstinence.


  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Enrolled in Drug Court
  • Report using any opiates and/or cocaine during 30 days prior to their arrest
  • Unemployed

Exclusion Criteria:

Individuals are excluded if they:

  • Are at imminent risk of suicide
  • Have a psychotic disorder that may limit their workplace functioning or their ability to provide informed consent
  Contacts and Locations
No Contacts or Locations Provided
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: University of Kentucky College of Medicine ( Conrad J. Wong, Ph.D./ Assistant Professor )
Study ID Numbers: 05-0865-F2L, 7R21DA017885-02
Study First Received: January 22, 2008
Last Updated: February 4, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00607360     History of Changes
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA):
cocaine addiction, treatment, contingency management, employment intervention

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Behavior, Addictive
Mental Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
Disorders of Environmental Origin
Cocaine

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mental Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
Disorders of Environmental Origin

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 03, 2009