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The rise and fall of a community service for the ‘compulsory’ treatment of opiate addicted offenders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Eric F. Mendelson  and
Stephen P. Mason
Eric F. Mendelson
Affiliation:
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Knowle Hospital, Fareham, Hampshire PO17 5NA
Stephen P. Mason
Affiliation:
Probation Officer, Community Service Unit, 12 Minshull Street, Manchester M1 3FR
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The compulsory treatment of addicts has always attracted controversy and even generates strong emotional responses from workers in the field. But the few projects which have been mounted have yielded results no less encouraging than voluntary approaches and in some instances report greater success. These schemes have already been subject to an international comparison (Webster, 1986).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 12 , December 1991 , pp. 729 - 731
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

References

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Webster, C. D. (1986) Compulsory treatment of narcotic addiction. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 8, 133–159.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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