DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03490.v1
title: Families As a Resource in Recovery From Drug Abuse in New York City, 1999-2001
title: Version 1

description: This study examined La Bodega de la Familia, an
 experimental program for drug-abusing offenders and their families in
 New York City. The study evaluated the outcomes of substance abusers
 and their families who participated in La Bodega's family case
 management by comparing them to a group of similar families that did
 not participate in the program. Data were collected on 93 La Bodega
 participants and 88 comparison subjects. Data were gathered through
 structured interviews conducted when subjects entered the study and
 six months later. The first round of interviews was conducted from
 January 1999 through August 2000, and the second round was conducted
 between August 1999 and January 2001. The interviews were based on a
 standardized instrument that assessed self-reported physical and
mental health, family functioning, and social support.
description: This study examined La Bodega de la Familia, an
 experimental program for drug-abusing offenders and their families in
 New York City. The program was designed by planners at the Vera
 Institute of Justice and funded by New York City and New York
 State. It engaged substance abusers and their family members in family
 case management and other services as a supplement to probation,
 parole, or pretrial supervision. To recruit clients, La Bodega's staff
 developed relationships with the local police, parole and probation
 departments, tenant associations, the public housing authority, health
 providers, and other groups. Many families were referred to the
 program after contact with a government agency, and some heard about
 it from neighbors or friends. During the time of the study the program
 served a 56-block area on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The
 program was not designed as a drug treatment program but rather as a
 service for families who were trying to support a drug user through
 treatment and recovery. It was devoted to building support around the
 offender to improve the offender's chances of staying in mandated
 outpatient treatment. It also aimed to support the family for its own
 sake in order to address the intrafamilial damage caused by substance
 abuse, to improve the health and well-being of all family members, and
 to reduce their risk of becoming involved in drugs and crime. The
 study evaluated the outcomes of substance abusers and their families
 who participated in La Bodega's family case management by comparing
 them to a group of similar families that did not participate in the
program.
description: Data were collected on 93 La Bodega participants
 and 88 comparison subjects. Both groups included drug users and their
 family members. Data were gathered through structured interviews
 conducted when subjects entered the study and six months later. The
 first round of interviews was conducted from January 1999 through
 August 2000, and the second round was conducted between August 1999
 and January 2001. The interviews were based on a standardized
 instrument that assessed self-reported physical and mental health,
 family functioning, and social support. The questions forming the
 instrument were drawn from seven separate instruments. The seven
 instruments that made up this study's composite instrument were the
 Short Form (SF) 36 Health Survey, selected items from the Hispanic
 Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES), the Center for
 Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale, selected items from
 the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), the Family Environment Scale (FES)
 Form R, the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Social Support Survey, and
 the Special Programs of National Significance (SPNS) Innovative Models
of HIV/AIDS Care Instrument (Modules 4A and 4B).
description: Questions in the SF-36 Health Survey covered
 subjects' physical and mental health measured on eight subscales
 (physical functioning, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social
 functioning, role-emotional, mental health, and role-physical). The
 HHANES provided questions on use of health services and the incidence
 of chronic health problems, the CES-D provided questions related to
 the incidence and level of depression, the ASI provided questions on
 recent and lifetime drug use, drug treatment, criminal justice
 involvement, and quality of family and social relationships, the FES
 measured the social environment of families on ten subscales
 (cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, independence, achievement
 orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational
 orientation, moral-religious emphasis, organization, and control), the
 MOS Social Support Survey measured the type and level of social
 support on four subscales (tangible support, affectionate support,
 positive social interaction, emotional/informational support), the
 SPNS Module 4A asked about health and other services needed and
 received, and SPNS Module 4B asked about facilitators and barriers to
 receiving these services. The variables corresponding to the first and
 second interviews are the same, except that for the second interview
 the SPNS Module 4A questions were altered to ask about services needed
 and received since the first interview and whether La Bodega played a
role in providing those services.
description: Response Rates: Of the 295 individuals who completed valid first
 round interviews, 181 (61 percent) of them completed valid follow-up 
interviews.
description: Presence of Common Scales: Scales included the Short Form 36 Health Survey, selected
 items from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the
 Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, the Addiction
 Severity Index, the Family Environment Scale Form R, the Medical
 Outcomes Study Social Support Survey, and the Special Programs of
 National Significance Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care Instrument
(Modules 4A and 4B).
description: An on-site research assistant arranged to meet with
 families and enroll them in the study upon learning that they had
 participated in La Bodega's family case management. The major
 recruitment source for the comparison group was the New York State
 Division of Parole. More than three-fourths of the comparison group
 users and family members came from this source. A local methadone
 center and health clinic were each the source of 5 percent of the
 comparison group families, and 6 percent came from an alternative to
 incarceration program. In addition, some users and family members in
 the comparison group heard about the study from a friend or other
 organization and volunteered to be part of it, and 2 percent were
 recruited from the New York State Division of probation. Subjects
 were included in the final sample only if they completed two valid
interviews.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Families As a Resource in Recovery From Drug Abuse in New York City, 1999-2001
description: Substance-abusing offenders and their family members who
 lived on the lower east side of Manhattan, New York City, between
January 1999 and January 2001. Smallest Geographic Unit: None.
description: The user guide, codebook, and data collection
 instruments are provided by ICPSR as Portable Document Format (PDF)
 files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated
 and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe
 Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat
Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.