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Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment

BACKGROUND: To reduce criminal recidivism and drug use, it has been proposed that the substance abuse treatment delivery system cut across different components of the criminal justice continuum. Arrest, at the front end of this continuum, may represent a critical moment to motivate people with subst...

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Autores principales: Kubiak, Sheryl Pimlott, Arfken, Cynthia L, Swartz, James A, Koch, Alison L
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1557487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16879743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-1-20
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author Kubiak, Sheryl Pimlott
Arfken, Cynthia L
Swartz, James A
Koch, Alison L
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Arfken, Cynthia L
Swartz, James A
Koch, Alison L
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description BACKGROUND: To reduce criminal recidivism and drug use, it has been proposed that the substance abuse treatment delivery system cut across different components of the criminal justice continuum. Arrest, at the front end of this continuum, may represent a critical moment to motivate people with substance use disorders (SUD) to seek treatment but is often over looked as an intervention point. We used data from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to compare treatment need and recent treatment admission for participants with no criminal justice (CJ) involvement in the past year, past-year arrest, and CJ supervision (i.e., probation or parole status). RESULTS: Of those arrested, 44.8% met criteria for an SUD. However, only 14% of those arrested with an SUD received treatment in the year of their arrest. In multivariate modelling, arrest was an independent predictor of treatment admission (odds ratio (OR) = 8.74) similar in magnitude to meeting criteria for an SUD (OR = 8.22). Those further along the continuum – under supervision – were most likely to receive treatment (OR = 22.62). CONCLUSION: Arrest involves the largest number of individuals entering the criminal justice system. The NSDUH suggests that nearly 6 million individuals in the US experience an arrest annually and that nearly half meet criteria for an SUD. Although arrest involves the largest number of individuals entering the criminal justice system, it is also the most fleeting point as individuals can move in and out rather quickly. Minimally, arrest imposes contact between the individual and a law enforcement person and can be an opportunity for early intervention strategies such as pre-arraignment diversion into treatment or brief intervention strategies. Using brief intervention at this early point in the continuum may motivate a greater number of individuals to seek treatment or decrease drug and alcohol use. Training and procedural shifts at this point of contact could have important policy implications in reducing the number of subsequent arrests or preventing individuals moving further along the criminal justice continuum, as well as decreasing the fiscal and resource burdens associated with criminal justice processing and confinement.
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spelling pubmed-15574872006-08-30 Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment Kubiak, Sheryl Pimlott Arfken, Cynthia L Swartz, James A Koch, Alison L Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy Research BACKGROUND: To reduce criminal recidivism and drug use, it has been proposed that the substance abuse treatment delivery system cut across different components of the criminal justice continuum. Arrest, at the front end of this continuum, may represent a critical moment to motivate people with substance use disorders (SUD) to seek treatment but is often over looked as an intervention point. We used data from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to compare treatment need and recent treatment admission for participants with no criminal justice (CJ) involvement in the past year, past-year arrest, and CJ supervision (i.e., probation or parole status). RESULTS: Of those arrested, 44.8% met criteria for an SUD. However, only 14% of those arrested with an SUD received treatment in the year of their arrest. In multivariate modelling, arrest was an independent predictor of treatment admission (odds ratio (OR) = 8.74) similar in magnitude to meeting criteria for an SUD (OR = 8.22). Those further along the continuum – under supervision – were most likely to receive treatment (OR = 22.62). CONCLUSION: Arrest involves the largest number of individuals entering the criminal justice system. The NSDUH suggests that nearly 6 million individuals in the US experience an arrest annually and that nearly half meet criteria for an SUD. Although arrest involves the largest number of individuals entering the criminal justice system, it is also the most fleeting point as individuals can move in and out rather quickly. Minimally, arrest imposes contact between the individual and a law enforcement person and can be an opportunity for early intervention strategies such as pre-arraignment diversion into treatment or brief intervention strategies. Using brief intervention at this early point in the continuum may motivate a greater number of individuals to seek treatment or decrease drug and alcohol use. Training and procedural shifts at this point of contact could have important policy implications in reducing the number of subsequent arrests or preventing individuals moving further along the criminal justice continuum, as well as decreasing the fiscal and resource burdens associated with criminal justice processing and confinement. BioMed Central 2006-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC1557487/ /pubmed/16879743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-1-20 Text en Copyright © 2006 Kubiak et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kubiak, Sheryl Pimlott
Arfken, Cynthia L
Swartz, James A
Koch, Alison L
Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment
title Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment
title_full Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment
title_fullStr Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment
title_full_unstemmed Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment
title_short Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment
title_sort treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1557487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16879743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-1-20
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