Central States Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Center

描述（由申请人提供）： 美国的刑事司法系统充斥着吸毒者。然而，制定的侧重于涉及吸毒者从监狱过渡到社区治疗的刑事司法的办法很少。这是令人震惊的，因为据估计，在今后几年中，每年将有50万囚犯返回社区，其中83%估计是吸毒者。该应用程序的重点是通过建立中央国家刑事司法药物滥用治疗研究系统（CJ-DATS）中心来检查社区过渡。中部各州CJ-DATS中心的总体目标是开发信息，以改善涉及吸毒者的刑事司法过渡干预措施，减少累犯，减少吸毒，并减少相关犯罪。介绍了肯塔基州大学毒品和酒精研究中心的既定经验，以继续开展基于当前研究的农村/城市理论基础刑事司法研究。这些研究包括两项正在进行的国家药物开发署试验，这两项试验正在审查一项加强的缓刑犯艾滋病毒干预措施和一项加强的毒品法庭就业干预措施，还有一个项目正在审查5所监狱的吸毒囚犯利用监狱和社区保健服务的情况，从监狱到社区进行了12个月的跟踪。本申请还描述了将成立的四个中央州中心委员会，以（1）计划，（2）实施，（3）收集/分析数据和（4）与主要研究者，中心指导委员会和中心咨询委员会合作开发出版物。来自州惩教专员、州药物滥用主任、6个刑事司法机构和8个社区治疗机构的承诺书显示，第一年和随后几年，农村和城市受试者可获得15 709名刑事司法参与者和13 087名社区治疗参与者。此外，两项研究协议作为跨CJ-DATS中心的多地点试验，以加强监狱/社区过渡：（1）加强就业干预，重点是获得，维持和提升就业，（2）案件管理/犯罪思维错误加强干预。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The U.S. criminal justice system is awash with drug abusers. However, few approaches have been developed which focus on criminal justice involved drug abusers as they transition from prison to community treatment. This is alarming because it is estimated that 500,000 prisoners will return to the community each year for the next several years, and 83 percent of those returning are estimated to be drug abusers. This application is presented to focus on examining community transitions by establishing the Central States Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Research System (CJ-DATS) Center. The overall aim of the Central States CJ-DATS Center is to develop information to improve transition interventions for criminal justice involved drug abusers which reduce recidivism, reduce drug abuse, and reduce related crime. The established experience of the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research is described to continue to carry out rural/urban theoretically grounded criminal justice studies, which build upon current research. These studies include two on-going NIDA trials which are examining an enhanced Probationer HIV intervention and an enhanced Drug Court employment intervention, as well as a project which is examining prison and community health services utilization among drug abusing prisoners in 5 prisons with 12 month follow-up from prison to the community. This application also describes four Central States Center Committees that will be established to (1) Plan, (2) Implement, (3) Collect/Analyze Data and (4) Develop Publications in concert with the Principal Investigator, the Center Steering Committee, and the Center Advisory Board. Letters of commitment from a State Corrections Commissioner, a State Substance Abuse Director, 6 criminal justice agencies, and 8 community treatment agencies present rural and urban subject availability of 15,709 criminal justice participants and 13,087 community treatment participants for the first year and subsequent years. In addition, two study protocols are presented as multi-site trials across CJ-DATS Centers to enhance prison/community transitions: (1) An enhanced employment intervention focused on obtaining, maintaining and upgrading employment, and (2) A case management/criminal thinking error enhanced intervention.