Objectives: Providing adequate treatment and supervision for drug offenders with co-
occurring disorders has been a challenge because they are usually not eligible for drug …

Drug courts and mental health courts have expanded rapidly in the past several decades to
provide more efficient coordination of treatment and supervision of offenders with behavioral …

... Clients said to have co-occurring disorders have one or more mental disorders as well as
one or more disorders relating to the use of alcohol and/or other drugs. A diagnosis of co …

Purpose: Today, the criminal justice system is annually placing more than 300,000 people
with severe mental illness (SMI) in prisons and jails which are neither equipped nor staffed …

The significant expansion of correctional populations in the last decade, coupled with the
gradual erosion of community treatment infrastructure and health insurance, have brought …

One of the major challenges in designing screening and assessment approaches, treatment
interventions, and supervision strategies for offenders with co-occurring disorders involves …

This study examined problem severity, treatment participation, and recidivism among 1,016
offenders with co-occurring mental disorders who participated in California's Proposition 36 …

This paper examines outcomes 12 months post-prison release for offenders with co-
occurring disorders (n= 185) randomly assigned to either a mental health control treatment …

Much attention has been paid in recent years tothe increasing number of incarcerated
individuals who have co--occurringmental illness and substance use disorders. This …

THE INTERSECTION between drug abuse and crime has been well documented. Drug and
alcohol abuse are associated with large numbers of criminal acts. The response to drug …