Abstract
In this paper the nature, scope, and drug relatedness of violent events reported by a sample of methadone maintenance treatment clients is examined and compared with events reported by a sample of drug abusers not in treatment. The drug relatedness of events is ascertained according to a tripartite model of the drugs-violence relationship. Data derive from a study of the drugs-violence nexus among male drug users and distributors who lived in or frequented the lower east side of Manhattan. Among the major findings were that while events reported by the treatment group were less likely than those reported by the not-in-treatment group to be related to heroin, total alcohol and cocaine related dimensions of violence were similar for the two groups. There was no difference between these groups in terms of the proportion of events that were drug related or the proportion of drug related events that could be attributed to each of the three posited models of drug relatedness. The implications of our findings are discussed.
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