Evaluating Alternative Aftercare Models for Ex-Offenders
Completed · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Usual Aftercare, Oxford House, Therapeutic Community
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00664092
- Run by
- DePaul University
- People needed
- 300
- Starts
- 2007-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2014-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-02-11
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- have completed substance abuse treatment program, or attended 12-step program
- willing to live in a democratic residential setting, and pay rent
- Released from a prison or jail in the last 6 months
You may not qualify if…
- current substance addict/abuser
- have previously lived in an Oxford House
- not planning to go back to their own home or home of a relative following treatment
- sex offender, fire setter
Where it is running
- DePaul University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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