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Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings

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The high prevalence of use among offenders is a consistent trend that transcends international boundaries. Chronic drug users in the criminal justice system pose risks to themselves and the general population through their commission of drug-related property and violent crime, as well as through the spread of infectious diseases, such as HIV and HCV. In this chapter, we review multinational evidence concerning the drug/crime relationship, the use of drugs within correctional settings, the consequences of drug use among offenders, and the intervention approaches for drug-involved offenders in custodial settings as well as those under community supervision. We conclude with several recommendations for practice and research that we consider to be important next steps in advancing this literature: (1) focus on implementation; (2) need for more randomized trials; (3) clarification of the role of coercion – when it helps, when it hurts; (4) distinguish “addicted offenders” from “offender addicts”; and (5) examine the use of depot medications for opiate-dependent offenders.

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  1. Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, 11075 Santa Monica Blvd., Ste. 200, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, USA

    David Farabee

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Tarek A. Gawad

  3. National Rehabilitation Center, Abu Dhabi, 55001, UAE

    Tarek A. Gawad

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, 55001, CA, USA

    Richard A. Rawson

  5. Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, USA

    Richard A. Rawson

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Alberta Gambling Research Institute University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  2. Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Giuseppe Carrà

  3. Division of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

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Farabee, D., Rawson, R.A., Gawad, T.A. (2015). Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings. In: el-Guebaly, N., Carrà, G., Galanter, M. (eds) Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5322-9_112

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