The majority of adolescents treated for substance use disorder in the United States are now
referred by the criminal justice system. Little is known, however, regarding how justice …

Introduction Youth involved in the justice system have high rates of alcohol and other drug
use, but limited treatment engagement. JJ-TRIALS tested implementation activities with …

Objectives: Youths in the juvenile justice system often do not access needed behavioral
health services. The behavioral health services cascade model was used to examine rates …

While juvenile drug courts (JDCs) require treatment participation, youth and parent
engagement in treatment cannot be mandated. We compared youths' and parents' self …

The problem of adolescent drug use places a huge toll on society and a heavy burden on
the criminal justice system. Despite the ability of therapeutic communities (TCs) to lower …

The adolescent drug problem places a huge toll on society and a heavy burden on the
criminal justice system. Research regarding the benefits of therapeutic community (TC) …

Background Justice-involved youth report high rates of substance use and related problems
that are associated with treatment needs; however, data on screening and linkage to …

Background The purpose of this paper is to describe the Juvenile Justice—Translational
Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) study, a …

INTRODUCTION s described by Belenko and colleagues (Belenko & Dembo, 2003; Belenko
& Logan, 2003), the emergence of juvenile drug courts (JDC) in the early 1990s was spurred …

Objective: Nonincarcerated (community-supervised) youths who are first-time offenders
have high rates of mental and substance use disorders. However, little is known about their …