This TIP, Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System, revises and supersedes TIP 7, Screening and Assessment for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Among Adults in the Criminal Justice System, TIP 12, Combining Substance Abuse Treatment With Intermediate Sanctions for Adults in the Criminal Justice System, and TIP 17, Planning for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System. The revised TIP provides the current clinical evidencebased guidelines, tools, and resources necessary to help substance abuse counselors treat clients involved with the criminal justice system.

This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) provides guidelines for counselors and criminal justice personnel who treat offenders with substance use disorders. TIPs are best-practice guidelines that make the latest research in substance abuse treatment available to counselors and educators. The content was generated by a panel of experts in the fields of substance abuse treatment and criminal justice and was reviewed by independent experts. The eleven chapters cover: The first Chapter offers an introduction to the subject; Chapter 2: Screening and Assessment, explains the screening and assessment process of substance use and co-occurring disorders. Chapter 3: Triage and Placement in Treatment Services, describes the process of triage and placement in available treatment services; Chapter 4: Substance Abuse Treatment Planning, covers the process of treatment planning (including criteria for criminality, client motivation, and readiness for change); and Chapter 5: Major Treatment Issues and Approaches, presents an overview of the major clinical strategies and program components. Chapter 6: Adapting Offender Treatment for Specific Populations, is devoted to treatment for specific populations, including violent offenders, disabled/impaired offenders, older offenders, sex offenders, women in the criminal justice system, those from rural areas, and offenders with infectious diseases. Chapter 7: Treatment Issues in Pretrial and Diversion Settings, focuses on substance abuse treatment in pretrial and diversionary settings, while Chapter 8: Treatment Issues Specific to Jails, discusses treatment issues uniquely specific to jails and jail populations. Chapter 9: Treatment Issues Specific to Prisons, provides an overview, description of the population, and treatment services in prisons, including in-prison therapeutic communities. Chapter 10: Treatment for Offenders Under Community Supervision, presents a discussion on the treatment of offenders under community supervision, while Chapter 11: Key Issues Related to Program Development, covers those pressing issues related to program development (such as reconciling public safety and public health interests, program-level coordination, and cost issues). Appended are: (1) Bibliography; (2) Glossary; (3) Screening and Assessment Instruments; (4) Resource Panel; (5) Cultural Competency and Diversity Network Participants; (6) Special Consultants; and (7) Field Reviewers. (Contains 11 figures.).

Spotlights the important moment in recovery when an offender who has received substance use disorder treatment while incarcerated is released into the community. Provides guidelines for ensuring continuity of care for the offender client. Treatment providers must collaborate with parole officers & others who supervise released offenders. This report explains how these & other members of a transition team can share records, develop sanctions, & coordinate relapse prevention so that treatment gains made insideÓ are not lost. Presents specific treatment guidelines to long-term medical conditions, & sex offenders.

This TIP provides counselors with clinical guidelines to assist with problems that routinely occur with clients in the criminal justice system who are dealing with substance abuse and dependency disorders. It describes the unique needs of offenders. It addresses the challenges counselors and criminal justice personnel are likely to face at every stage of the criminal justice continuum.

A Treatment Improvement Protocol prepared to facilitate the transfer of state-of-the-art protocols and guidelines for the treatment of alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse from acknowledged clinical, research, and administrative experts to the Nation's AOD abuse treatment resources. Includes: the effectiveness of AOD treatment in the criminal justice system; the AOD-involved offender; the criminal justice continuum; the AOD abuse treatment system; collaboration between systems; coordinated training; confidentiality issues; and evaluation. Bibliography. CSAT criminal justice treatment planning chart. Sample interagency agreement.