Drug treatments in criminal justice settings.

Autor: Nordstrom BR; Dartmouth Medical School, DHMC, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA. benjamin.r.nordstrom@dartmouth.edu, Williams AR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Psychiatric clinics of North America [Psychiatr Clin North Am] 2012 Jun; Vol. 35 (2), pp. 375-91. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Apr 06.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2012.03.005
Abstrakt: The available evidence suggests that drug treatment can lead to modest, but real, reductions in criminal offending for drug-using criminal offenders. Considering the scope of the problem of drug-related crime and the expense of dealing with these issues, even marginal improvements can lead to important aggregate savings in both economic and humanitarian terms. More randomized, controlled trials of drug treatment in criminal justice programs will lead to a more sophisticated understanding of what kind of treatment works best for this group.
Databáze: MEDLINE