Background: Over seven million persons in the United States are supervised by the criminal
justice system, including many who have co-occurring mental and substance use disorders …

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 …

Background Adults with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders (CODs) are
overrepresented in jails. In-custody barriers to treatment, including a lack of evidence-based …

The presence of adults with mental health and substance abuse disorders within the
criminal justice system has become increasingly evident over the past decade. Interventions …

Individuals with substance use and concurrent mental disorders or co-occurring disorders
(CODs) present numerous risks and treatment challenges. CODs are particularly …

This article describes a randomized study to determine the effectiveness of a reentry
modified therapeutic community (RMTC) for offenders with co-occurring substance use and …

The tremendous growth in state and federal correctional populations has focused greater
attention on the needs of mentally ill and substance abusing inmates. Although an estimated …

Background Despite a growing pipeline of effective clinical treatments, there remains a
persistent research-to-practice gap in drug abuse services. Delivery of effective treatment …

The large number of individuals with substance use disorders involved in the nation's
criminal justice system (CJS) represents a unique opportunity, as well as challenges, in …

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