Drug addiction

Exploring How Prison-Based Drug Rehabilitation Programming Shapes Racial Disparities in Substance Use Disorder Recovery

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Women and Addiction: Challenges for Drug Court Practitioners

Date Published

2002

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Relationship Between Re-Incarceration and Their Own Childhood Foster Care Experience of Women

Date Published

March 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Improving Officer Safety in Interactions With Citizens Suffering From Mental Illness

Date Published

May 2017

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Instructional Material (Programmed)

Agencies

NIJ

Addiction, the Brain, and Evidence-Based Treatment

Date Published

March 2012

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Instructional Material, Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Going Home (or Not): How Residential Change Might Help the Formerly Incarcerated Stay Out of Prison

October 2011

Series

Research for the Real World

Dr. Kirk discusses how Hurricane Katrina affected those formerly incarcerated persons originally from New Orleans and their likelihood of returning to prison. Kirk also discussed potential strategies for fostering residential change among those who were incarcerated, focusing specifically on parole residency policies and the provision of public housing vouchers.

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Addiction, the Brain, and Evidence-Based Treatment

March 2012

Series

Research for the Real World

The criminal justice system encounters and supervises a large number of drug abusing persons. Punishment alone is a futile and ineffective response to the problem of drug abuse. Addiction is a chronic brain disease with a strong genetic component that in most instances requires treatment. Involvement in the criminal justice system provides a unique opportunity to treat drug abuse disorders and related health conditions, thereby improving public health and safety.

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What Works in Offender Supervision

June 2009

This NIJ Conference Panel highlights findings from NIJ projects that evaluated strategies to enhance the supervision of offenders in the community. Researchers discuss the effectiveness of fair, swift and certain sanctions for high-risk probationers in the Hawaii HOPE program. Panelists also provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring — including the use of GPS tracking — for medium- and high-risk offenders on supervision and upon completion of their supervision sentence.

Crime File: Drug Addiction

January 1990

This Crime File video presents a panel discussion of the biological causes and effects of drug addiction, with a focus on cocaine, and examines treatment principles and the characteristics of those most likely to benefit from treatment.

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Crime File: Drug Addiction

Date Published

January 1990

Series

NIJ Crime Files

Publication Type

Training (Aid/Material)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Notes From the Field: Understanding the Opioid Crisis Through Data and All-Stakeholder Reviews

Date Published

April 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Issue Overview, Instructional Material (Programmed)

Agencies

NIJ

Retrospective Identification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Forensic Toxicology Casework using Archived High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data

2017-R2-CX-0021

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$494,695

Novel Blood Protein Modification Assay for Retrospective Detection of Drug Exposure - Development and Validation

2017-MU-BX-0002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$467,885

Improving Officer Safety in Interactions With Citizens Suffering From Mental Illness

May 2017

Cara Altimus, former ASSS Fellow with NIJ, discusses the importance of law enforcement and first responders understanding mental illness, its causes, and how it affects the brain. She speaks about the correlation between drug addiction and mental illness. Altimus also addresses establishing procedures and systems so that police officers and first responders can safely and successfully interact with individuals with drug addiction and/or mental illness.

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