Recovery-Oriented Care for Drug-Abusing Offenders

The Effectiveness of Coerced Treatment for Drug- Abusing Offenders

Physicians-in-training attitudes toward caring for and working with patients with alcohol and drug abuse diagnoses.

INTRODUCTION Physicians in all specialties commonly encounter patients who abuse alcohol or illegal drugs. Working with these patient populations can be challenging and potentially engender negative attitudes. This study is designed to identify the progression of attitudinal shifts over time of physicians-in-training toward caring for substance abusing patients. METHODS AND MATERIALS A 31-ite...

Treating Criminal Offenders: Where Things Stand

T hree articles in this issue of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice address the issues raised when the destructive cycles of criminality and drug abuse combine. The authors offer stimulating research and practice-based perspectives on ways to improve criminal offenders' chances of extricating themselves from the meshed coils of recidi-vism and relapse. Prendergast summarizes what we have lea...

“Recovery Came First”: Desistance versus Recovery in the Criminal Careers of Drug-Using Offenders

The aim of our paper is to gain insight in the desistance process of drug-using offenders. We explore the components of change in the desistance process of drug-using offenders by using the cognitive transformation theory of Giordano et al. as a theoretical framework. The desistance process of drug-using offenders entails a two-fold process: desistance of criminal offending and recovery. The re...

Multidimensional family therapy HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention: an integrative family-based model for drug-involved juvenile offenders.

Drug and juvenile justice involved youths show remarkably high rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted disease (STD) risk behaviors. However, existing interventions aimed at reducing adolescent HIV risk behavior have rarely targeted these vulnerable young adolescents, and many approaches focus on individual-level change without attention to family or contextual influenc...