Posts by Jason Lutjen
JCOIN Announcements: Two Projects Approved for Funding
Webinar: Prosecutor-led Diversion–Best Practices for People with Substance Use Disorder (1-28-2021)
Hosted by the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) in partnership with the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) Prosecutors play a pivotal role in connecting people with substance use disorders to community treatment and the expansion of innovative diversion programs nationwide. Prosector-led programs provide opportunities to reduce the demand on the justice system, prioritize treatment…
Read MoreJuvenile Justice Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS)
NIDA’s Juvenile Justice Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) was a multisite cooperative agreement that launched in 2013 and ended in 2018. JJ-TRIALS was a seven-site cooperative research program designed to identify and test strategies for improving the delivery of evidence-based substance use and HIV prevention and treatment services for justice-involved youth.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Testing and Prevention in Correctional Settings (045)
Yale University received a supplement to support a study to increase the reach, access, uptake, and impact of COVID-19 testing and to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 among incarcerated people and corrections staff. The initiative’s multidisciplinary team will be working with jails and prisons across Florida, Rhode Island, Minnesota, and Washington to address the urgent…
Read MoreCommunity Network-Driven COVID-19 Testing in Vulnerable Populations (044)
The University of Chicago received a supplement to support the Community Network-Driven COVID-19 Testing of Vulnerable Populations in the Central US (C3) project to evaluate a COVID-19 testing approach that combines Social Network Testing Strategy (SNS) with community-developed public health messages. This study will focus on addressing misinformation, stigma, and distrust about COVID-19 testing and…
Read MorePolicy Surveillance for OUD/Justice/COVID (043)
COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States, but the pandemic has also provided an opportunity to experiment with changes in how opioid treatment services are delivered around the country. The current pandemic has resulted in a flurry of unprecedented policy measures, and it is crucial to understand the impact that…
Read MoreACTION: Addressing Risk through Community Treatment for Infectious Disease Now (042)
Improving HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) management and implementation for justice-involved individuals requires effective approaches to screening, linkage, and adherence to integrated services across community agencies and service providers. Community reentry represents a critical opportunity to link individuals to HIV prevention, treatment, and OUD service providers. The Yale University JCOIN Research Center is conducting…
Read MoreNIATx vs ECHO as Comparative Implementation Strategies (041)
This trial will test two timely, successful evidence-based implementation practices, NIATx Coaching and Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO), to increase the use of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with justice-involved populations. NIATx Coaches provide expertise in MOUD implementation and organizational change to help treatment organizations and staff start, sustain, and spread the use…
Read MoreSupportive Social Networks and Outcomes (024)
Social support networks have been an invaluable tool to combat addiction and other health interventions. The concept of social support networks as a powerful force in the health of substance users is well documented. Effective substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment approaches have been effectively combined with the inclusion of naturally-occurring support persons. The concept of organic social support has been under-utilized for retaining community members in SUD treatment programs.
Read MoreRe-Entry: Social Networks and Opioid Use (023)
Diverse communities enter the justice system, exit and re-enter to create a complex circulation driven by a number of social and structural factors. Often ignored are important social interactions that drive opioid use disorder (OUD) or methamphetamine use. Social learning and differential association theories hold that risky behaviors, including rationalizations for them, diffuse through social networks of close ties. Furthermore, network members influence behavior by virtue of the behavioral example they provide, the normative pressures they exert, and perceptions of these influences. If we understand how OUD/meth or recovery/renewed use moves through networks and their local geographic contexts, we will be able to develop new interventions, and determine previously unobserved mechanisms as to why interventions may fail or have success.
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