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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2008 Jun 2;35(4):410–418. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2008.03.003

Table 5.

Offender-reported Barriers to Entering Proposition 36 Treatment (n=124)

Reported Barriers %
Rearrested and incarcerated 31.6
Not ready/didn’t want treatment 23.9
Program was too far away 11.1
Entered “pre-treatment” or detox 7.7
Wait time was too long 6.0
Chose drug court/other CJ program 3.4
Disliked Proposition 36 assessment 3.4
Needed care was unavailable 2.6
Kept using drugs 2.6
Dropped from Proposition 36 1.7
Other 6.0