Substance Abuse: Publications and Tools
Justice Reinvestment State Brief: Kansas
Describes a strategy implemented in Kansas to analyze drivers of prison growth, which included large numbers of people under community supervision returned to prison, whose revocation can be traced to failure to comply with substance abuse treatment. This brief also describes processes by which Kansas official reinvested savings generated from averted corrections costs into substance abuse treatment.
Assessment and Risks/Needs Determination Tool
This interactive web-based tool offers the following features: 1) a description of what information should be collected about an individual’s risks and needs; 2) a timeline of when this information should be collected; 3) suggestions about who should be tasked with collecting this information; and 4) a database of assessment instruments commonly used in corrections settings, including those used to assess substance use disorders.