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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
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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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