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Camden Coalition Medical-Legal Partnership: Year One Analysis of Civil + Criminal MLP Model in Addiction Medicine Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2024

Jeremy S. Spiegel ,
Matthew S. Salzman ,
Iris Jones  and
Landon Hacker
Jeremy S. Spiegel
Affiliation:
CAMDEN COALITION MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP, CAMDEN, NJ, USA
Matthew S. Salzman
Affiliation:
COOPER MEDICAL SCHOOL OF ROWAN UNIVERSITY, CAMDEN, NJ, USA
Iris Jones
Affiliation:
COOPER UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE CENTER FOR HEALING, CAMDEN, NJ, USA
Landon Hacker
Affiliation:
CAMDEN COALITION MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIP, CAMDEN, NJ, USA
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Abstract

In 2022, the Camden Coalition Medical-Legal Partnership began providing civil and criminal legal services to substance use disorder patients at Cooper University Health Care’s Center for Healing. This paper discusses early findings from the program’s first year on the efficacy of the provision of criminal-legal representation, which is uncommon among MLPs and critical for this patient population. The paper concludes with takeaways for other programs providing legal services in an addiction medicine setting.

Keywords

MLPSUDOpioidsLegalAddictionCriminalCamden
Type
Symposium Articles
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 51 , Issue 4: Medical-Legal Partnerships: Equity, Evaluation, and Evolution , Winter 2023 , pp. 838 - 846
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© 2024 The Author(s)

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