Little is known about the extent to which admission to alcohol and other drug treatment
programs is perceived as a coercive imposition. This is because coercion is typically inferred …

Research on coercion in addiction treatment typically investigates objective sources of
social pressure among legally mandated clients. Little research has examined the impact of …

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 …

Three fundamental clinical issues are consistently associated with treatment engagement
and outcomes in substance using populations; coercion, motivation and therapeutic …

The effects of perceived coercion and motivation on treatment completion and subsequent
re-arrest were examined in a sample of substance-abusing offenders assessed for …

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 …

Although the importance of coercion in entry to treatment for alcohol problems is recognized,
few studies have focused on different types and levels of coercion among heterogeneous …

This paper reports preliminary data derived from a standardized interview scoring procedure
for detecting and characterizing coercive and noncoercive pressures to enter substance …

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 …

Understanding the role of motivation in substance abusers' acceptance of treatment is
critically important to improving treatment outcomes. To examine this phenomenon a cohort …