Drug treatment outcomes in the criminal justice system: What non-self-report measures of outcome can tell us

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-160

  Powell, Charlotte ^a   Christie, Marilyn ^b   Bankart, John ^b   Bamber, Deborah ^a   Unell, Ira ^a  

^a LEICESTERSHIRE PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug treatment; drug use; offending; outcomes; reconviction; UK criminal justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952261039     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2010.530709     Document Type: Article

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