This paper presents an abbreviated survey of the substance abuse treatment literature
regarding the effectiveness of various levels of coercion. The review provides overall …

Background RIMINAL JUSTICE referrals constitute a substantial proportion of the publicly
funded drug treatment population m the United States. Ac cording to recent data, the criminal …

The use of legally coerced treatment for substance‐using offenders is now widespread
internationally. To justify the continued use of coerced treatment, policy‐makers …

The empirical literature on coerced treatment offers support for all three of these
assumptions. Drug users are responsible for a high proportion of crime, and the frequency of …

This article draws attention to some empirical patterns in the research literature that raise
questions concerning how effective the dominant modes of therapy are and whether …

Recent work has criticized the evidence base for the effectiveness of addiction treatment
under social controls and coercion, suggesting that the development of sound policies and …

Legal coercion is frequently used to leverage substance abuse treatment upon persons who
would otherwise not seek it voluntarily. Various methodological and conceptual problems of …

The current debate over national drug control policy is dominated by extremes. On the one
side are drug warriors who seek to eradicate drug use by advancing right controls on drug …

The impact of coercion in rehabilitation of drug abusers was examined in a 1979 study of a
population of drug abusers in treatment programs in South Jersey, The experimental group …

Prior research on legally coerced treatment for substance abuse tends to find no difference
between coerced and non-coerced clients with respect to treatment retention and treatment …