Community reentry: Racial/ethnic differences in unmet needs among adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorder

A Gaba, A Helm, PM Shaffer, B Pridgen… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorder (COD) recently
released from incarceration have many social and health needs that place them at the most …

Evaluating the implementation of a prisoner re-entry initiative for individuals with opioid use and mental health disorders: Application of the consolidated framework for …

J Hanna, S Kubiak, E Pasman, A Gaba, M Andre… - Journal of substance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Given the interrelated nature of opioid use, criminal justice interaction, and mental health
issues, the current opioid crisis has created an urgent need for treatment, including …

Integrating a co-occurring disorders intervention in drug courts: an open pilot trial

D Smelson, I Farquhar, W Fisher, K Pressman… - … mental health journal, 2019 - Springer
Little research has focused on systematically integrating clinical treatment within existing
drug court procedures. This could be particularly useful for clients with substance use …

Implementation of MISSION–Criminal Justice in a treatment court: Preliminary outcomes among individuals with co-occurring disorders

DA Pinals, A Gaba, KM Clary, J Barber… - Psychiatric …, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Mental health courts provide an alternative to incarceration and address both
mental health and criminal justice needs. Many individuals within these treatment courts …

Engaging vulnerable populations in drug treatment court: Six month outcomes from a co-occurring disorder wraparound intervention

PM Shaffer, CP Rodriguez, A Gaba, T Byrne… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Although drug treatment courts (DTCs) have demonstrated positive outcomes,
participants with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (CODs) are a high …

Assessing the reentry needs of incarcerated individuals with co-occurring opioid use and mental health concerns

D Lenz, T Willis, A Gaba, M Andre… - Journal of Offender …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Individuals with co-occurring mental health concerns and opioid use disorder (COD) are at
high risk of mortality and poor social and health outcomes upon release, and there is a need …

Integrating a co-occurring disorders intervention in a rural drug treatment court: Preliminary 6-month outcomes and policy implications

PM Shaffer, DA Smelson, A Gaba, SC Casey - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Little research has focused on systematically integrating clinical treatment within drug court
settings (a type of specialty court, and the most popular type of alternative to incarceration …

An alternative to incarceration: Co‐occurring disorders treatment intervention for justice‐involved veterans

DA Smelson, DA Pinals, L Sawh… - World Medical & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This article reports on the implementation, evaluation, and policy implications of MISSION‐
Criminal Justice (CJ), an innovative intervention used to treat justice‐involved veterans with …

Embedding a co-occurring disorders rehabilitation intervention in veterans courts: A pilot study with male veterans

DA Smelson, A Gaba, K Pressman, KM Clary… - … mental health journal, 2020 - Springer
Veterans treatment courts (VTCs) have expanded dramatically despite their limited empirical
base. This pilot study examined MISSION-Criminal Justice (CJ), a co-occurring disorders …

Identifying strategies to advance equitable implementation of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder treatment in drug treatment courts: A study …

A Gaba, A LoVette, B Pridgen, M Taylor… - Journal of Clinical and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Introduction: Behavioral health treatment disparities by race and ethnicity are well
documented across the criminal legal system. Despite criminal legal settings such as drug …