Title The first article is written by Joanne Neale and Esther Saville (2004) called “Comparing Community-Based and Prison-Based Drug Treatment” and the second article is called “Empirical and Theoretical Support for the Inclusion of Non-Abstinence-Based Perspectives in Prevention Services for Substance Using Adolescents” by Samuel MacMaster, Lori Holleran, and Katherine Chaffin in 2005.
Summary
Neale and Saville (2004) examines how efficient the drug treatment programs that are offered by the community and prison-based. Neale and Saville (2004) conduct this study by comparing the two programs by looking at various factors such as drug use, health, life circumstances, relationships and criminal behavior. Neale and Saville (2004) gathered data …show more content…
MacMaster, Holleran and Chaffin (2005) examines why Harm Reduction should be considered as an alternative for adolescents based on empirical support. MacMaster, Holleran and Chaffin (2005) discusses that the Harm Reduction perspective can work with other perspective such as Sages of Changes model to prevent adolescent substance abuse.
Themes
Admittedly, one the themes that came from Neale and Saville (2004) research paper was that the prison-based treatment service is making efforts to provide a wide-range of options for inmates, which changes the perception of prison-based treatment programs. Furthermore, MacMaster, Holleran and Chaffin (2005) provides the second theme of that adolescents need a substance abuse prevention program that actually changes their perspectives on drugs. Both of the articles provide a theme of early substance use prevention program that offers a wide-range of services prevents substance abuse from occurring.
Supporting …show more content…
The criminal justice system needs to consider programs that they can offer for individuals who are released out prison. Lastly, community-based treatment/prevention programs need to evaluate on what parts of the programs are effective and implement it on a large scale. The impressions that I gathered was that the in order to understand why individuals are having a difficult time after being released from prison to stop their substance
Summary
Neale and Saville (2004) examines how efficient the drug treatment programs that are offered by the community and prison-based. Neale and Saville (2004) conduct this study by comparing the two programs by looking at various factors such as drug use, health, life circumstances, relationships and criminal behavior. Neale and Saville (2004) gathered data …show more content…
MacMaster, Holleran and Chaffin (2005) examines why Harm Reduction should be considered as an alternative for adolescents based on empirical support. MacMaster, Holleran and Chaffin (2005) discusses that the Harm Reduction perspective can work with other perspective such as Sages of Changes model to prevent adolescent substance abuse.
Themes
Admittedly, one the themes that came from Neale and Saville (2004) research paper was that the prison-based treatment service is making efforts to provide a wide-range of options for inmates, which changes the perception of prison-based treatment programs. Furthermore, MacMaster, Holleran and Chaffin (2005) provides the second theme of that adolescents need a substance abuse prevention program that actually changes their perspectives on drugs. Both of the articles provide a theme of early substance use prevention program that offers a wide-range of services prevents substance abuse from occurring.
Supporting …show more content…
The criminal justice system needs to consider programs that they can offer for individuals who are released out prison. Lastly, community-based treatment/prevention programs need to evaluate on what parts of the programs are effective and implement it on a large scale. The impressions that I gathered was that the in order to understand why individuals are having a difficult time after being released from prison to stop their substance