NCJ Number
142602
Date Published
1992
Length
15 pages
Annotation
The intent of Iowa's joint Business Plan is to effectively direct the substance abuse treatment efforts of the Departments of Corrections and Public Health.
Abstract
The correlation between substance abuse and recidivism and the experience of treatment professionals suggests the need to develop a plan for efficient, effective, and coordinated intervention. Components of the plan include a probation, parole, work release violator program; treatment of substance abuse in community-based corrections; operating while intoxicated programs; and Treatment Alternatives to Street Crimes. Corrections and the community-based substance abuse agencies share an interdependent relationship and must work together for clients to be served consistently and efficiently. Goals developed to address shared issues and needs involve standardizing assessment requirements, improving the consistency of communication, ensuring the availability of a culturally sensitive treatment approach, and implementing a system of differential diagnosis to maximize the utilization of pre-, post-, and institutional substance abuse treatment services.