Women on Parole

Barriers to Success after Substance Abuse Treatment

Bibliographic Data

ID18997979
AuthorsElizabeth Hall (0000-0002-6385-1676, corresponding author), Elizabeth A Hall, Dana M Baldwin, Michael L Prendergast, Michael Prendergast (0000-0003-1532-9127)
Year2001
Volume60
Issue3
Pages225-233
Publication date2001-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
PublisherSociety for Applied Anthropology (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17730/humo.60.3.3enpeq3xh4870d7y
OpenAlexW2031472912
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Providing substance abuse treatment to women addicts is an important objective of national drug treatment policy because of the high psychological and social costs of addiction for women and their children, as well as the costs to society of lost productivity and added burdens on the social service and criminal justice systems. Using qualitative methods, we examined the barriers to success on parole among participants of an in-prison residential substance abuse treatment program. Primary barriers to success on parole were refusing community residential treatment, lack of vocational services within community residential programs, lack of community residential treatment programs that accept children, and the difficulty of avoiding habitual drug-using areas

Criminology · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Substance abuse · Substance abuse treatment · Substance use · Clinical Psychology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects · Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

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