The need for prison-based drug treatment programs can be seen by the high incidence of severe drug problems among inmates. Much of the programmatic research aimed at elucidating effective treatment has been hampered by design flaws. The lack of control groups or adequate outcome measures, prospective designs and insufficient follow-up have been the most common insufficiencies. This study matched volunteer subjects on race and primary drug of abuse and then assigned them to either a Relapse Prevention-based (RP) or Drug Education group. Outcome measures chosen were objective and verifiable to avoid reliance on self-report data. Inmates were followed-up, after their release from prison, into either a community half-way house or while on parole. Half-way houses and parole officers were sent announcement letters one week prior to a telephone contact in order to collect information on the individual inmates. The hypotheses were that the RP group would have lower rates of recidivism, would have fewer occurrences of positive body tests for drugs or alcohol, would have a slower rate of return to drug/alcohol usage, would have fewer reports of rule infractions at the half-way house and on parole and would have fewer number of rule infractions that were related to drug/alcohol usage. / The statistical analyses failed to support the hypotheses. There were no main effects for treatment between the two groups. The rate of recidivism was similar to that achieved by incarceration alone. Recommendations regarding future research based upon the limitations of this study are discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-02, Section: B, page: 1046. / Major Professor: Jon Bailey. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78431 |
| Contributors | Ashkanazi, Glenn Steven., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 95 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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