Methadone Maintenance for Prisoners

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

This five-year study examines the benefits of methadone maintenance treatment initiated in prison and continued in the community to male offenders who were previously, but not currently, heroin-dependent. It is anticipated that such prisoners will have more favorable outcomes in the year following release with regard to drug abuse, crime, and HIV risk behavior than either prisoners who receive counseling only or begin initiation of methadone maintenance in the community

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Friends Research Institute, Inc.
• Collaborator: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Methadone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Heroin dependence in the year prior to current incarceration

• 3-6 months left to serve in prison-male pre-release inmate suitability for methadone maintenance as determined by medical evaluation

• Willingness to enroll in methadone maintenance

• Having a Baltimore address

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pending parole hearing

• Pending charges

• Kidney failure

• Liver failure