Community Legal Systems: Targeting PrEP and HIV Education to Decrease Risk of HIV Transmission.

The southern U.S. has both high HIV and incarceration rates in comparison to its population.

Substance abuse treatment for mothers: treatment outcomes and the impact of length of stay.

This article examines the treatment outcomes of 305 women enrolled in a comprehensive, residential substance abuse treatment program for pregnant and parenting women and their children. The women were assessed at intake and three times in the year after discharge. Analyses focused on change in client functioning over time, and investigating the impact of length of stay in treatment on client outcomes.

Voucher-based incentives for cigarette smoking reduction in a women's residential treatment program.

Participants were women (N = 16) living with their children in a residential substance abuse treatment facility. In this within-subjects repeated measures study, a 1-week baseline was followed by a 4-week intervention and a 2-week follow-up (same as the baseline). The intervention consisted of exposure to an educational video and a smoking cessation workbook, brief individual support meetings, and an escalating schedule of voucher-based reinforcement of abstinence.