This is a five-year prospective randomized trial comparing two intervention conditions designed to facilitate substance abuse treatment entry and enhance retention in order to reduce the behaviors associated with HIV and HCV risk among injection drug users (IDUs) and to improve client overall functioning. The overall goal of this project is to compare strengths-based case-management (CM) to an enhanced version of CM that uses case managers to facilitate a therapeutic alliance (CM/FTA) among out-of-treatment IDUs in Denver.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
726
Clients will receive counseling and/or referrals for help with nine life domains (life skills, finances, leisure activities, relationships, living arrangements, occupation/education, health, mental health, recovery from substances, legal assistance) for a period of five months after baseline.
Clients will receive counseling and/or referrals for help with nine life domains (life skills, finances, leisure activities, relationships, living arrangements, occupation/education, health, mental health, recovery from substances, legal assistance) for a period of five months after baseline. They will also receive a facilitated treatment alliance, which consists of meetings with methadone counselors to aid in treatment entry.
Project Safe
Denver, Colorado, United States
Treatment entry and retention
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months after baseline, 12 months after baseline
Drug injection and HIV/HCV risk behaviors
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months after baseline, 12 months after baseline
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