Integration of the Therapeutic Workplace in Drug Court

Drug Addiction Clinical Trial

Official title:

Integration of the Therapeutic Workplace in Drug Court

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00607360
• Other study ID #: 05-0865-F2L
• Secondary ID: 7R21DA017885-02
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: January 22, 2008
• Last updated: January 9, 2017
• Start date: August 2004
• Est. completion date: July 2007

Study information

• Verified date: January 2008
• Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Drug Courts were developed as a therapeutic alternative to incarceration of drug-involved offenders by providing 'judicially supervised' drug abuse treatment and probation for nonviolent offenders in lieu of criminal prosecution and incarceration. Outcome studies have shown that drug courts have modest effects on participation in drug abuse treatment, drug use, and employment. The Therapeutic Workplace intervention is an effective employment-based treatment that integrates abstinence reinforcement contingencies in a work setting, intended to treat individuals with histories of drug addiction and chronic unemployment. Under this intervention, drug abuse patients are hired and paid to work. To promote abstinence, patients are required to provide drug-free urine samples to gain and maintain daily access in the workplace. In this way, patients can work and earn salary, but only as long as they remain drug abstinent. Patients using drugs and lacking job skills participate in an initial training phase to initiate abstinence and establish computer data entry skills. Once abstinent and skilled, patients are hired into an income-producing Therapeutic Workplace data entry business. Given that many drug court participants suffer from long histories of drug addiction and unemployment, the Therapeutic Workplace could be ideal for this population. This proposes of this clinical trial is to evaluate the Therapeutic Workplace intervention in a Drug Court.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 59
• Est. completion date: July 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Enrolled in Drug Court

• Report using any opiates and/or cocaine during 30 days prior to their arrest

• Unemployed

Exclusion Criteria:

Individuals are excluded if they:

• Are at imminent risk of suicide

• Have a psychotic disorder that may limit their workplace functioning or their ability to provide informed consent

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Behavior, Addictive
• Drug Addiction
• Substance-Related Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Therapeutic Workplace Intervention
Therapeutic workplace intervention is intended for individuals with drug addiction and chronic unemployment. Participants are invited to participate in work and receive salary for participation and productivity contingent upon drug abstinence.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)