Drunken detainees in police custody: Is brief intervention by the forensic medical examiner feasible?

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 214-221

  Deehan, Ann ^a,d   Stark, Margaret ^b   Marshall, E Jane ^a   Hanrahan, Brian ^c   Strang, John ^a  

^a National Addiction Centre

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUSTODY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUNKENNESS; EMERGENCY WARD; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; POLICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0031731924     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.248     Document Type: Article

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