RT Article
T1 Court-Mandated Treatment Outcomes for Prescribed Opioid Use Disorder: A Gender Based Study
JF Journal of drug issues
VO 52
IS 1
SP 47
OP 66
A1 Lucabeche, Viviana Ximena
A1 Quinn, Paul Victor
A2 Quinn, Paul Victor
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1780481527
AB This study provides empirical information suggesting court-mandated treatment may be a more effective treatment pathway for opioid use disorder (OUD). To examine the effects of mandated treatment for prescription opioid users, we consider the differences in discharge completion rates for court-mandated and non-mandated treatment for both males and females. We use the Treatment Episode Data Set-Discharges (TEDS-D) from 2015 to 2017 with 13,239, 14,765, and 15,433 cases, respectively, to study successful completion rates for males and females with OUD. Logistic regression analysis confirms a greater completion rate for mandated treatment episodes. Of all mandated females, 59% completed treatment in each of the 3 years as compared to the 59%, 65%, and 64% of successful completion for mandated males, respectively, from 2015 to 2017. Our results suggest court-mandated treatment pathways are more effective on treatment completion for individuals with OUD, yet treatment completion disparity between sexes increases even when females are mandated.
K1 treatment pathway
K1 Gender
K1 opioid use disorder
K1 court mandated treatment
DO 10.1177/00220426211044410