Now revised and updated, this widely used text comprehensively reviews theories of
addiction to give students and professionals a multidisciplinary foundation for clinical …

Drug and alcohol use presents a serious social problem for most countries in the world. Of
particular concern is the well-documented relationship between substance use and crime …

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

Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as 'dangerous drugs', to be controlled by
the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others–from alcohol and tobacco …

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 …

Despite the proliferation of drug courts and other mandatory treatment models, few studies
have compared the impact of different program features comprising these models. This study …

Background Social pressures are often an integral part of the process of seeking addiction
treatment. However, scientists have not developed conclusive evidence on the processes …

An overview of research trends and issues in the area of compulsory substance abuse
treatment is presented, using a sample of 170 English-language articles obtained from a …

Though coercion is widely used in psychiatry, both in terms of involuntary hospital
admissions and coercive treatment, little is known about the effects of coercing patients. In …

We randomly assigned 32 concerned family members and significant others (FSOs) of drug
users (DUs) to a community reinforcement training intervention or a popular 12-step self …