Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act: Client Characteristics, Treatment Completion and Re-Offending Three Years After Implementation

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 38, Issue , 2006, Pages 357-367

  Evans, Elizabeth ^a   Longshore, Douglas ^a   Prendergast, Michael ^a   Urada, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug offense; Proposition 36; Substance abuse and crime prevention act of 2000; Treatment

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRIME; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFFENDER; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRISON; PROBATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; ADDICTION; AGE; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; ETHNIC GROUP; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMPHETAMINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CRIME; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SEX FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 33845921611     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2006.10400599     Document Type: Article

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