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Abstract: 

This is the eleventh report in a series that describes specific CJ-DATS projects. The investigators are currently conducting a short term (12-month) project that has two objectives. The first is to develop a brief (maximum of 20 minutes) screening instrument— the Criminal Justice Co-Occurring Disorders Screening Instrument (CJ-CODSI)— that will screen for individuals with COD and that can be administered, with some brief training, by treatment or correctional staff without specialized mental health skills. The second is to administer the resulting CJ-CODSI instrument to a sample of 300 consecutive admissions to prison-based substance abuse treatment programs to assess the instrument’s capacity to determine the presence of COD among offenders in substance abuse treatment programs and the feasibility for large-scale administration. Proposed study steps are given.

Keywords:  CJ-DATS

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