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Challenges of Community Treatment
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2. Successful Treatment
Providing support, understanding, and
motivation to promote short and long term
behavior change
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3. Special Needs Offenders in the Community
• Substance abuser
• Sex offender
• Mentally ill
• Developmentally disabled
• Lifestyle offenders
• Homeless offenders
• Chronic unemployed offenders
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4. Types of Commonly Abused Substances
• Alcohol
• Stimulants
• Hallucinogens
• Depressants
• Opiates
• Marijuana
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5. Types of Drug Users
• Experimenters
• Floaters
• Compulsive users
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6. Substance Abuse Intervention Models
• Strict Abstinence with immediate Sanctions
• Harm Reduction with permissible relapse
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7. Common Substance Abuse Treatment
Methods
• Drug testing
• Alcoholic/Narcotics Anonymous
• Behavior modification
• Outpatient Treatment
• Methadone Treatment
• Residential Treatment
• Therapeutic Community
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8. Examples of Treatment Models
Methadone Treatment Therapeutic Community
• Administered orally • 18-24 month program
• Longer lasting effects • High end offenders
• Combines in-patient and • Rigidly structured environment
outpatient care • Uses peer pressure and
• Monitored through testing confrontation
• Focuses on re-socialization
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9. Effectiveness of Drug Treatment
• Non-prison treatment seven times more effective than
punitive sentencing
• Two to three times more effective than traditional shorter
sentences (1996 Rand Study)
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10. Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act
of 2000 (Proposition 36)
• Passed by 61% of California voters
• Mandated new approach to treatment of substance
abusers on probation and parole
• Prioritized treatment over incarceration
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11. Key Terms: Substance Abuse
• Drug of Choice • Psychological dependence
• Poly drug user • Physiological dependence
• Substance abuse • comorbidity
• Substance dependence
• Detoxification
• Tolerance
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