CJ-DATS PHASE I

In 2002, NIDA launched the National Criminal Justice — Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS). CJ-DATS is a multisite research program aimed at improving the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders and integrating criminal justice and public health responses to drug involved offenders. From 2002 through 2008, CJ-DATS researchers from 9 research centers, a coordinating center, and NIDA worked together with federal, state, and local criminal justice partners to develop and test integrated approaches to the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders. The areas that were studied included: Assessing Offender Problems Measuring Progress in Treatment and Recovery Linking Criminal Justice and Drug Abuse Treatment Adolescent Interventions HIV and Hepatitis Risk Reduction Understanding Systems