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

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

doi:10.1159/000189785

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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-77
Number of pages	7
Journal	European Addiction Research
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000189785
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2009

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Keywords

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

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