Of central importance is that our clinical experience and treatment outcome studies to date
strongly suggest that coercion is fundamental to addiction treatment and favorable outcomes …

Traces the historical-legal background of heroin addiction in the US and surveys present
knowledge of heroin addiction, providing original literature and contemporary approaches to …

Therapeutic jurisprudence is the study of the law's healing potential (Wexler & Winick, 1996;
Wexler & Winick, 1991; Winick, 2005; Winick, 1997b). An interdisciplinary approach to legal …

The major drug-treatment modalities-methadone maintenance, therapeutic communities,
outpatient drug-free programs, and some criminal justice system-based treatments such as …

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 …

Modern mental health law was conceived when courts and commentators recognized that
psychiatrists and other mental health professionals often promised society—and the legal …

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 …

Analyses were conducted to determine whether addicts coerced into treatment by actions of
the criminal justice system differed from voluntary entrants in terms of background …

Rates of illicit drug use, especially heroin and cocaine, are many times greater among
criminal justice populations than in the general population. Research demonstrates that …

Past research has generally shown that drug courts are reaching their target offenders and
that program participants are rearrested at a lower or equivalent rate than comparison …