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ROSIE Findings 1: Summary of 1-year outcomes

Title: ROSIE Findings 1: Summary of 1-year outcomes Authors: Dr Gemma Cox Dr Catherine Comiskey Paul Kelly Jennifer Cronly Published: September 2006 Pages: 12 File Size: 988KB Format: Portable Document Format (PDF) To view PDF documents you will need to download Adobe Reader from the Adobe website.

Executive Summary

The Research Outcome Study n Ireland evaluating drug treatment effectiveness (ROSIE) is the first national, prospective, longitudinal, multi-site drug treatment outcome study in the country. The National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) commissioned this study in 2002 as required by the National Drug Strategy Action 99. The aim of the Study is to recruit and follow opiates users entering treatment over a period of time documenting the changes observed. The contract was awarded to Dr Catherine Comiskey and NUI Maynooth in 2002. Dr. Gemma Cox was project Manager from July 2003 and July 2006.

The Study recruited 404 opiate users entering treatment. The outcomes at 1-year for drug use, involvement in crime, injecting-related risk behaviour, physical and mental health among others are presented in this paper. Statistically significant differences are given emphasis in this document. Behaviour changes related to the 90 days prior to interviews, unless otherwise stated.

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