Relationship between Drug Treatment Engagement and Criminal Thinking Style among Drug-Using Offenders

David Best, Edward Day, A Campbell, PM Flynn, DD Simpson

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    Abstract

    There has been considerable debate about the effectiveness of drug treatment in reducing offending and drug use, with limited support for the effectiveness of the UK Drug Intervention Programme to reduce offending through diversion into treatment. The current paper examines drug users diverted into treatment in one UK city to assess their treatment engagement and criminal thinking styles. There is an association between higher criminal thinking and both poorer engagement in treatment and worse client functioning. The key implication is that to address offending-prone behaviour as a determinant of ongoing drug use, it is essential that criminal thinking styles are addressed. Copyright (C) 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)71-77
    Number of pages7
    JournalEuropean Addiction Research
    Volume15
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2009

    Keywords

    • Criminal thinking
    • Treatment engagement
    • Quasi-coercive treatment
    • Drugs and crime
    • Drug treatment effectiveness

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