title: Final thoughts on IMPACT: a federally funded, jail-based, drug-user-treatment program.
abstract: A federal demonstration project in the Cook County Jail, called IMPACT (Intensive Multi-phased Program of Assessment and Comprehensive Treatment), provided residential drug-user treatment to more than 3,000 inmates during its 5 years of operation between January 1991 and October 1995. In that time, much was learned about initiating and conducting a complex, intensive, longer-term drug-user-treatment program in a jail setting. This article describes IMPACT and summarizes the results of a process and an outcome evaluation of the program and a series of focus groups. Based on these studies, we recommend ways to improve the design and implementation of drug-user treatment programs in jails.
authors.affiliation: Illinois Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities, Inc., Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Swartz
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lurigio
mesh_terms: D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011330:Prisons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012114:Residential Treatment / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States