Access to Recovery (ATR) is a
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)–funded
initiative that offers a mix of clinical and supportive services for substance
abuse. ATR clients choose which services will help to overcome barriers in
their road to recovery, and a recovery consultant provides vouchers and helps
link the client to these community resources.
One of ATR’s goals was to provide
services to those involved in the criminal justice system in the hopes that
addressing substance abuse issues could reduce subsequent criminal behaviors.
This study examines this goal by looking at recidivism among a sample of
clients in one state’s ATR program who returned to the community after
incarceration.
Results suggest that there were few differential effects of service
selections on subsequent recidivism. However, there are significant differences
in recidivism rates among the agencies that provided ATR services. Agencies
with more resources and a focus on prisoner reentry had better recidivism
outcomes than those that focus only on substance abuse services.
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Dennis P. Watson, Center for Health Policy, Indiana
University Fairbanks School of Public Health, 714 N Senate Avenue,
Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. Email:dpwatson@iu.edu
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