Corrections_Today_May_June_2020_Vol.82_No.3

Health Care Special Session & Luncheon

1. Accurate assessment and referral to an appropriate level of treatment for an appropriate amount of time 2. Frequent accountability 3. “A big stick” (their license) 4. Relationships with peers and family

that have a SUD. There are only about 2,000 of those individuals being served by drug courts, with 44,800 left behind.

TN ROCS, as Slone explained, “utilized the essential components of the most successful recovery-oriented compliance strategies to increase the court’s opportunities to help bring hope and healing.”

This has helped result in drug recovery courts in Tennessee and other states. Slone described these courts as serving nonviolent, high-risk/ high-need individuals who require an application or are voluntarily admitted. With multiple, close- ended phases, these courts have a heavy demand on time and energy of team members and heavily depend on volunteer human resources. The popu- lation served is limited to a small percentage of justice-involved individuals with behavioral health disorders, and the implementation and scalability of such are limited. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than half (58%) of state prisoners and about two-thirds (63%) of sentences jail inmates met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Dis- orders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) criteria for drug dependence or abuse from 2007-2009. Slone’s presentation also stated that with 78,000 individu- als on supervised release, there are about 46,800

Slone then began to discuss the Tennessee Recovery Oriented Compliance Strategy, or “TN ROCS.” TN ROCS, as Slone explained, “utilized the essential components of the most success- ful recovery-oriented compliance strategies to increase the court’s opportunities to help bring hope and healing.” He spoke about how this was primarily applied towards

pregnant women with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). With institutional bias against medication to assist treat- ment of OUD, as well as how these women were only receiving medication to treat their addiction, Slone wanted to ensure these women could receive proper treatment. With the success going back to 2013, Slone made sure to expand the programs to the entire supervised release population.

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