The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) established CJ-DATS as a cooperative research program to explore the issues related to the complex system of offender treatment services. Research centers and a Coordinating Center were created in partnership with researchers, criminal justice professionals, and drug abuse treatment practitioners to form a national research infrastructure.
"The establishment of CJ-DATS is an outstanding example of cooperation among Federal agencies with the research community... We need to understand how to provide better drug treatment services for criminal justice offenders to alter their drug use and criminal behavior."
- Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA.
CJ-DATS is one of the research networks in the NIDA Networking Project.
CJ-DATS PHASE I
In 2002, NIDA launched the National Criminal Justice—Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS). CJ-DATS is a multisite research program aimed at improving the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders and integrating criminal justice and public health responses to drug involved offenders. From 2002 through 2008, CJ-DATS researchers from 9 research centers, a coordinating center, and NIDA worked together with federal, state, and local criminal justice partners to develop and test integrated approaches to the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders. The areas that were studied included:
"The establishment of CJ-DATS is an outstanding example of cooperation among Federal agencies with the research community... We need to understand how to provide better drug treatment services for criminal justice offenders to alter their drug use and criminal behavior."
- Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA.
CJ-DATS is one of the research networks in the NIDA Networking Project.
CJ-DATS PHASE I
In 2002, NIDA launched the National Criminal Justice—Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS). CJ-DATS is a multisite research program aimed at improving the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders and integrating criminal justice and public health responses to drug involved offenders. From 2002 through 2008, CJ-DATS researchers from 9 research centers, a coordinating center, and NIDA worked together with federal, state, and local criminal justice partners to develop and test integrated approaches to the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders. The areas that were studied included:
- Assessing Offender Problems
- Measuring Progress in Treatment and Recovery
- Linking Criminal Justice and Drug Abuse Treatment
- Adolescent Interventions
- HIV and Hepatitis Risk Reduction
- Understanding Systems
CJ-DATS PHASE II
In 2008, CJ-DATS began to focus on the problems of implementing research-based practices drug treatment practices. This research concerns the organizational and systems processes involved in implementing valid, evidence-based practices to reduce drug use and drug-related recidivism for individuals in the criminal justice system. 12 CJ-DATS Research Centers are conducting implementation research in three primary domains:
- Research to improve the implementation of evidence-based assessment processes for offenders with drug problems
- Implementing effective treatment for drug-involved offenders
- Implementing evidence-based interventions to improve an HIV continuum-of-care for offenders
Overview of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies
Prendergast, M. (2006). Overview of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies. Clinical Trials Network Steering Committee Meeting
National Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS): Update and Progress
Fletcher, B., & Wexler, H. National Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS): Update and Progress. JRSA The Forum, 23, 1-7.
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