Treatment for Drug Abusing Offenders During Correctional Supervision

ABSTRACT

With the country's correctional institutions awash with drug offenders, the treatment of such persons during their period of custody is opportune, cost-effective and likely to be successful with the use of research-tested technologies for human change. This paper presents the overall scope of the problem; the relationship between drugs and crime; the history of treating drug-using⁻offenders including national efforts in the past decade; efforts afoot in the Federal Correctional Options Program and the Bureau of prisons; describes efforts in a number of states, and highlights important successful treatment results from California, Florida, Texas, New York, Oregon, and Delaware.