An Evaluation of California's Experiment With HOPE

Pepperdine University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Drugs of Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Parole-as-usual; Behavioral: HOPE supervision

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01237691

SPPN1110F01

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 105 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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105 participants in 2 patient groups

HOPE supervision

Experimental group

Description:

Parolee supervised under California's new HOPE parole model.

Treatment:

Behavioral: HOPE supervision

Parole-as-usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parolees supervised under California parole-as-usual.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parole-as-usual