Reporting of substance use treatment quality in United States adult drug courts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adult drug courts are growing in popularity within the Unites States, but the quality of substance use treatment within drug court programs and the impact of drug courts on health and substance use treatment outcomes is largely unknown. We appraised the quality of United States adult drug court process evaluations and the inclusion of measures of substance use treatment quality.

Methods

We systematically reviewed the adult drug court evaluations between 2008 and 2018 in accordance with recommended strategies for systematic gray literature search. We appraised evaluation quality using the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordination Center tool for process evaluations. We extracted recommended measures of substance use treatment quality, including

SUBMITTER: Joudrey PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8046712 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature