Recovery Management Checkups with Adult Chronic Substance Users

The effects of specialized probation and recovery management checkups (RMCs) on treatment participation, substance use, HIV risk behaviors, and recidivism among female offenders: main findings of a 3-year experiment using subject by intervention interaction analysis

“…The second trial, which was better implemented than the first, had larger effects over the first two years (Scott and Dennis 2009). In both studies, the magnitude of RMC’s effects increased with each quarterly intervention over time (Scott and Dennis 2011). …”

“…Based on a public health model of monitoring and early reintervention, RMC was developed and tested to reduce the time from relapse to treatment reentry and prolong recovery (e.g., Dennis et al 2003a; Dennis and Scott 2012; Scott et al 2005; 2011; Scott and Dennis 2009). The current research examined RMCs as a long-term care and supervisory strategy for female releasees with substance use disorders and HIV risk.…”

“…The current research examined RMCs as a long-term care and supervisory strategy for female releasees with substance use disorders and HIV risk. The RMC model is based on a public health model in which ongoing monitoring and prompt reintervention can detect and halt impending relapse, reduce the time to treatment readmission, and improve participants’ outcomes (Scott and Dennis 2011). RMC linkage managers facilitate connections to treatment and employ engagement and retention protocols to assist clients in obtaining long-term recovery care (Scott and Dennis 2008).…”

“…In the second trial (Dennis and Scott 2012; McCollister et al 2013; Scott and Dennis 2009; 2011), participants received quarterly RMCs for four years. Compared with those in the assessment-only (control) group, participants in the RMC group similarly experienced less time between relapse and treatment reengagement, increased abstinence from substance use, and higher recovery rates.…”

The Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Services Cascade: A new framework for measuring unmet substance use treatment services needs among adolescent offenders

“…The concept of sequential stages of SU treatment services from problem identification through treatment engagement has existed for many years (Scott & Dennis, 2009, 2011), but the structure and visual representation of the Cascade was particularly informed by the HIV care cascade, which has emerged in recent years as a widely used framework for both depicting gaps in HIV surveillance and treatment, and for estimating the impact of interventions to increase engagement in treatment and viral suppression to undetectable levels. The HIV cascade has been used to describe the HIV epidemic at local, national, and international levels, with successive bars illustrating the numbers of individuals subsequently diagnosed, linked to care, retained in care, receiving antiretroviral therapy, and achieving viral suppression (Gardner, McLees, Steiner, Del Rio, & Burman, 2011; Greenberg et al, 2009; MacCarthy et al, 2015).…”