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Upcoming Webinars and Presentations

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Past Webinars and Presentations

Elizabeth Van Nostrand presented “Do individuals who complete treatment court programs have better health and societal outcomes than those who are eligible but do not enter a program?” at the PA Emerging Drug Trends Symposium on November 19, 2024 in Camp Hill, PA.

Mark Roberts presented the poster “Modeling the Impact of Problem-Solving Courts in Indiana” during the 2024 Addiction Health Services Research Conference held on October 16, 2024 in San Francisco, California.

Elizabeth Van Nostrand presented “Does Participation in a Treatment Court Impact Health and Societal Outcomes?” during the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Conference held on June 10, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Van Nostrand presented “Evaluating problem solving courts as a public health intervention to prevent fatal and non-fatal opioid overdose events: So what actually works?” during American Public Health Associations (APHA) Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs panel discussion held on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Elizabeth Van Nostrand and Mark Roberts presented “What Works? Evaluating Problem-Solving Courts as a Public Health Intervention To Keep People Alive and Healthy” at NADCP RISE23 Annual Training Conference. The presentation was on June 30, 2023 from 9:30am-10:45am.

Elizabeth Van Nostrand presented a virtual poster titled “Using a Mixed Methods Design to Identify Services That Impact Non-Fatal and Fatal Overdose Events” on February 3, 2022 at the 2022 Conference on Statistical Practice. Click here to download the poster.


News Articles

CDC-Funded Study Examines Problem-Solving Court Interventions for Drug Offenders
By: Lisa Litzinger-Drayton | September 12, 2022
https://cph.temple.edu/about/news-events/news/cdc-funded-study-examines-problem-solving-court-interventions-drug-offenders


Journal Articles

Evaluating the effectiveness of problem-solving courts at preventing fatal and non-fatal opioid events: preliminary findings from Indiana
Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Alyssa Johnston, Steven M Albert, Andre L Brown, Jeanine M Buchanich, Brad Ray, Mark S Roberts
https://doi.org/10.7573/dic.2021-8-1