An Evaluation of California's Experiment With HOPE

Drugs of Abuse Clinical Trial

Official title:

Phase 1 Study of California's HOPE Experiment

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01237691
• Other study ID #: SPPN1110F01
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 1, 2010
• Last updated: April 6, 2018
• Start date: November 2010
• Est. completion date: March 2013

Study information

• Verified date: April 2018
• Source: Pepperdine University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The phase I evaluation is intended to assess whether or not frequent drug testing and immediate short-term incarceration for drug use and/or other violations and mandated drug treatment for multiple violations, reduces the recurrence of drug use and/or other violation behaviors by California parolees assigned to the study group.

Description:

The California HOPE pilot program is being implemented under the authority granted in Penal Code 5058.1. The phase I evaluation is intended to assess whether or not frequent drug testing and immediate short-term incarceration for drug use and/or other violations and mandated drug treatment for multiple violations, reduces the recurrence of drug use and/or other violation behaviors by California parolees assigned to the study group compared with parole-as-usual.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 105
• Est. completion date: March 2013
• Est. primary completion date: October 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Assigned to the Sacramento Metro IV Parole Unit.

• Released from a term of return-to-custody for a violation for, or involving, the use of drugs.

• Have a maximum controlling discharge date at least one year from the date of release from the return-to-custody term.

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of convictions for crimes that require registration under Penal Code Section 290.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Drugs of Abuse

Intervention

Behavioral:
• HOPE supervision
HOPE entails a warning session (Orientation Hearing) where the rules of parole are laid out and parolees are told that any violation of stated parole conditions will be sanctioned with a brief jail term (typically a few days in jail). HOPE includes regular random drug testing.
• Parole-as-usual
Parolees are supervised under standard parole supervision practice in California.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Sacramento Metro IV Parole Unit.	Sacramento	California

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Pepperdine University	University of California, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Days incarcerated	Total number of days incarcerated in jail or prison	24 months
Secondary	% positive drug tests	Percentage of random and scheduled drug tests that test positive for illicit drugs	24 months
Secondary	%Missed	Percentage of parole appointments that are missed.	24 months
Secondary	Revocation rate	Percentage of parolees that are revoked from probation and returned to prison for either a technical violation or on a new charge.	24 months
Secondary	New arrests	Number of new arrests.	24 months
Secondary	Perceptions of risk of detection	Parolees perceived risk of detection for drug use	24 months