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    Cannabis treatment outcomes among legally coerced and non-coerced adults

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    2007-06-14
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    Copeland, Jan
    Maxwell, Jane C.
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    Abstract
    Background: Treatment seeking for cannabis dependence in general, and particularly the number of criminal justice referrals to cannabis treatment, has increased over the past decade. This study aims to compare the characteristics, psychosocial functioning and treatment outcome of those legally coerced into cannabis treatment compared to those entering treatment without legal coercion. -- Methods: This study is a retrospective audit of the administrative clinical records of 27,198 adults presenting to public Texas treatment programs with cannabis as their primary drug problem between 2000 and 2005. -- Results: Of the 69% legally coerced into treatment, there was less psychological distress and greater likelihood of having completed treatment compared with non-coerced clients. Participants who were legally coerced into treatment were also more likely to have received less intensive forms of treatment and to have not used cannabis in the month prior to 90-day post-treatment follow-up. -- Conclusion: More public health information is needed on cannabis dependence and increased availability of subsidised early and brief interventions in a variety of primary health care settings would reduce the late presentations of the more severely impaired voluntary clients. The limitations of this dataset are discussed.
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    Center for Social Work Research
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    Jan Copelan is with the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia -- Jane C. Maxwell is with the Addiction Research Institute, Center for Social Work Research, University of Texas at Austin, USA
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    Cannabis dependence
    Legal coercion
    psychosocial functioning
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2152/27872
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    Copeland, Jan, and Jane C. Maxwell. “Cannabis Treatment Outcomes among Legally Coerced and Non-Coerced Adults.” BMC Public Health 7, no. 1 (June 14, 2007): 111. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-111.
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