Michael L Dennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5377920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael L Dennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael L |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennis |
| SIGNATURE | DENNIS M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chestnut Health Systems |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2580-5345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Convenience, Quickness, and Compassion”
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to explore the experiences of people diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD) and recently involved with the criminal-legal system (CLS) as they received addiction treatment services from a Mobile Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) programme in Chicago. By assessing perceptions and satisfaction with receiving addiction treatment and additional wraparound services, including factors influencing care-seeking dec…
The cost of implementing and sustaining an evidence-based, behavioral-health electronic screening system in probation departments
BACKGROUND: Roughly 50%-75% of youths who have had contact with the juvenile justice system have a mental-health disorder. In 2019, a northeastern state required probation departments to implement an evidence-based behavioral health (BH) screen. e-Connect is a digital clinical decisional support system designed to identify suicide thoughts and behaviors and related BH risk and triage youths based on BH need, then facilitate linkage to care. OBJEC…
Exploring the feasibility of Recovery Management Checkups for Primary Care in a Federally Qualified Health Center
Introduction: Primary care settings present an opportunity for alcohol and substance use disorder (A/SUD) screening and treatment referral. However, there are recognized deficiencies in widely used treatment referral approaches, including acute care connections, vs. those that can support longer-term recovery. Recovery Management Checkups for Primary Care (RMC-PC) is an intervention with an evidence base for improving treatment referral and subse…
Impact of implementation interventions to improve substance use service delivery on recidivism among justice-involved youth
Substance use disorders (SUD) are prevalent among justice-involved youth (JIY) and are a robust predictor of re-offending. Only a fraction of JIY with substance use problems receive treatment. This paper describes the impacts of system-level efforts to improve identification and referral to treatment on recidivism of JIY. A cluster randomized trial involving 20 county juvenile justice agency sites across 5 states was used to implement an organiza…
Results of a national survey of substance use treatment services for youth under community supervision
Evaluating e-Connect
Addressing the behavioral health needs of youths involved in the justice system is key to reducing recidivism risk and preventing long-term system involvement. However, rates of treatment referral and initiation remain low, especially among minoritized youths and boys. The e-Connect System, a digital, clinical decision support system, addresses this problem by increasing rates of behavioral health treatment referral and initiation rates among you…
Availability of best practices for opioid use disorder in jails and related training and resource needs
The impact of Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts (JDTC) implementing Federal Evidence-Based Guidelines on recidivism and substance use
The impact of the opioid crisis on U.S. state prison systems
Recidivism Among Justice-Involved Youth
Recidivism, and the factors related to it, remains a highly significant concern among juvenile justice researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Recent studies highlight the need to examine multiple measures of recidivism as well as conduct multilevel analyses of this phenomenon. Using data collected in a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal Syste…
A Scoping Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Medications for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder within the Criminal Justice System
Juvenile justice systems of care
BACKGROUND: Youth involved in the juvenile justice (JJ) system have high needs for behavioral health services, especially related to substance use and mental disorders. This study aimed to understand the extent to which elements in the cascade model of behavioral health services for JJ-involved youth are provided to youth by Community Supervision (CS) and/or Behavioral Health (BH) providers. In order to understand interactions across CS and BH sy…
Enhanced Case Management versus Substance Abuse Treatment Alone among Substance Abusers with Depression
This pilot study evaluated the effectiveness of enhanced case management for substance abusers with comorbid major depression, which was an integrated approach to care. One hundred and 20 participants admitted to drug treatment who also met Computerized Diagnostic Interview Schedule criteria for major depression at baseline were randomized to enhanced case management (ECM) (n = 64) or treatment as usual (TAU) (n = 56). Both groups were followed u…
Surviving Drug Addiction
Objectives. We examined the relationships between substance abuse treatment, abstinence, and mortality in a sample of individuals entering treatment. We also estimated overall mortality rates and the extent to which they varied according to demographic, clinical severity, and treatment variables. Methods. We used data from a 9-year longitudinal study of 1326 adults entering substance abuse treatment on the west side of Chicago, of whom 131 died (…
HIV Risk Behaviors
The Strengthening Communities For Youth (SCY) Initiative
This article describes the Strengthening Communities for Youth (SCY) initiative using data from 1,297 adolescents in eight U.S. cities (Oakland, CA; Tucson, AZ; Iowa City, IA; Bloomington, IL; St. Louis, MO; Cleveland, OH; Louisville, KY, New York, NY) to better understand the pattern of services they received, how these services varied by need, and how services were associated with initial treatment outcomes. Data include adolescent reports coll…
Development and Validation of the Gain Short Screener (GSS) for Internalizing, Externalizing and Substance Use Disorders and Crime/Violence Problems Among Adolescents and Adults
The Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN) 1 is a 1–2 hour standardized biopsychosocial that integrates clinical and research assessment for people presenting to substance abuse treatment. The GAIN – Short Screener (GSS) is 3–5 minute screener to quickly identify those who would have a disorder based on the full 60–120 minute GAIN and triage the problem and kind of intervention they are likely to need along four dimensions (internalizing dis…
The Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Study
Gender Differences in Vocational Needs and Outcomes for Methadone Treatment Clients
Data from a pilot randomized field experiment conducted from 1990 to 1992 in three methadone treatment programs were analyzed to examine potential gender differences in vocational needs and outcomes. The study data were collected from 103 female and 147 male clients who were recommended by their counselors or were randomly sampled from all remaining clients enrolled in treatment. Half of each of these two groups of clients were randomly assigned …
Effectiveness of Streamlined Admissions to Methadone Treatment
Increasing the availability of, and streamlining the admissions process to, methadone treatment have consistently been the focus of national plans to address the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. This article uses simplified time-series analysis to evaluate one of the first methadone treatment Waiting List Reduction Demonstration Grants. The demonstration grant significantly increased both the number of people requesting intake…
Effective dissemination of energy-related information
Effective dissemination of energy-related information
Effective dissemination of energy-related information
Effective dissemination of energy-related information
Enhanced Case Management versus Substance Abuse Treatment Alone among Substance Abusers with Depression
This pilot study evaluated the effectiveness of enhanced case management for substance abusers with comorbid major depression, which was an integrated approach to care. One hundred and 20 participants admitted to drug treatment who also met Computerized Diagnostic Interview Schedule criteria for major depression at baseline were randomized to enhanced case management (ECM) (n = 64) or treatment as usual (TAU) (n = 56). Both groups were followed u…
Effective dissemination of energy-related information
Effective dissemination of energy-related information
Effective dissemination of energy-related information
Effective dissemination of energy-related information
Gender Differences in Vocational Needs and Outcomes for Methadone Treatment Clients
Data from a pilot randomized field experiment conducted from 1990 to 1992 in three methadone treatment programs were analyzed to examine potential gender differences in vocational needs and outcomes. The study data were collected from 103 female and 147 male clients who were recommended by their counselors or were randomly sampled from all remaining clients enrolled in treatment. Half of each of these two groups of clients were randomly assigned …
Effectiveness of Streamlined Admissions to Methadone Treatment
Increasing the availability of, and streamlining the admissions process to, methadone treatment have consistently been the focus of national plans to address the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. This article uses simplified time-series analysis to evaluate one of the first methadone treatment Waiting List Reduction Demonstration Grants. The demonstration grant significantly increased both the number of people requesting intake…
The Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Study
Development and Validation of the Gain Short Screener (GSS) for Internalizing, Externalizing and Substance Use Disorders and Crime/Violence Problems Among Adolescents and Adults
The Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN) 1 is a 1–2 hour standardized biopsychosocial that integrates clinical and research assessment for people presenting to substance abuse treatment. The GAIN – Short Screener (GSS) is 3–5 minute screener to quickly identify those who would have a disorder based on the full 60–120 minute GAIN and triage the problem and kind of intervention they are likely to need along four dimensions (internalizing dis…
The Strengthening Communities For Youth (SCY) Initiative
This article describes the Strengthening Communities for Youth (SCY) initiative using data from 1,297 adolescents in eight U.S. cities (Oakland, CA; Tucson, AZ; Iowa City, IA; Bloomington, IL; St. Louis, MO; Cleveland, OH; Louisville, KY, New York, NY) to better understand the pattern of services they received, how these services varied by need, and how services were associated with initial treatment outcomes. Data include adolescent reports coll…
HIV Risk Behaviors
Surviving Drug Addiction
Objectives. We examined the relationships between substance abuse treatment, abstinence, and mortality in a sample of individuals entering treatment. We also estimated overall mortality rates and the extent to which they varied according to demographic, clinical severity, and treatment variables. Methods. We used data from a 9-year longitudinal study of 1326 adults entering substance abuse treatment on the west side of Chicago, of whom 131 died (…
Enhanced Case Management versus Substance Abuse Treatment Alone among Substance Abusers with Depression
This pilot study evaluated the effectiveness of enhanced case management for substance abusers with comorbid major depression, which was an integrated approach to care. One hundred and 20 participants admitted to drug treatment who also met Computerized Diagnostic Interview Schedule criteria for major depression at baseline were randomized to enhanced case management (ECM) (n = 64) or treatment as usual (TAU) (n = 56). Both groups were followed u…
Juvenile justice systems of care
BACKGROUND: Youth involved in the juvenile justice (JJ) system have high needs for behavioral health services, especially related to substance use and mental disorders. This study aimed to understand the extent to which elements in the cascade model of behavioral health services for JJ-involved youth are provided to youth by Community Supervision (CS) and/or Behavioral Health (BH) providers. In order to understand interactions across CS and BH sy…
Recidivism Among Justice-Involved Youth
Recidivism, and the factors related to it, remains a highly significant concern among juvenile justice researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Recent studies highlight the need to examine multiple measures of recidivism as well as conduct multilevel analyses of this phenomenon. Using data collected in a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal Syste…
A Scoping Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Medications for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder within the Criminal Justice System
The impact of Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts (JDTC) implementing Federal Evidence-Based Guidelines on recidivism and substance use
The impact of the opioid crisis on U.S. state prison systems
Availability of best practices for opioid use disorder in jails and related training and resource needs
Impact of implementation interventions to improve substance use service delivery on recidivism among justice-involved youth
Substance use disorders (SUD) are prevalent among justice-involved youth (JIY) and are a robust predictor of re-offending. Only a fraction of JIY with substance use problems receive treatment. This paper describes the impacts of system-level efforts to improve identification and referral to treatment on recidivism of JIY. A cluster randomized trial involving 20 county juvenile justice agency sites across 5 states was used to implement an organiza…
Results of a national survey of substance use treatment services for youth under community supervision
Evaluating e-Connect
Addressing the behavioral health needs of youths involved in the justice system is key to reducing recidivism risk and preventing long-term system involvement. However, rates of treatment referral and initiation remain low, especially among minoritized youths and boys. The e-Connect System, a digital, clinical decision support system, addresses this problem by increasing rates of behavioral health treatment referral and initiation rates among you…
Exploring the feasibility of Recovery Management Checkups for Primary Care in a Federally Qualified Health Center
Introduction: Primary care settings present an opportunity for alcohol and substance use disorder (A/SUD) screening and treatment referral. However, there are recognized deficiencies in widely used treatment referral approaches, including acute care connections, vs. those that can support longer-term recovery. Recovery Management Checkups for Primary Care (RMC-PC) is an intervention with an evidence base for improving treatment referral and subse…
The cost of implementing and sustaining an evidence-based, behavioral-health electronic screening system in probation departments
BACKGROUND: Roughly 50%-75% of youths who have had contact with the juvenile justice system have a mental-health disorder. In 2019, a northeastern state required probation departments to implement an evidence-based behavioral health (BH) screen. e-Connect is a digital clinical decisional support system designed to identify suicide thoughts and behaviors and related BH risk and triage youths based on BH need, then facilitate linkage to care. OBJEC…
“Convenience, Quickness, and Compassion”
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to explore the experiences of people diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD) and recently involved with the criminal-legal system (CLS) as they received addiction treatment services from a Mobile Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) programme in Chicago. By assessing perceptions and satisfaction with receiving addiction treatment and additional wraparound services, including factors influencing care-seeking dec…
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Substance abuse (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works)