Abstract
AbstractThe police records of 65 male heroin addicts were compared before and after admission to a methadone maintenance program for occurrences of (1) violence, (2) property, and (3) drug related arrests. Occurrences of arrests for all three categories of crime decreased while the men were in treatment, and the police records of 19 men who prematurely left treatment indicated that their incidences of arrests for violence, property, and drug related crimes did not increase after leaving the program. The conclusions were drawn (1) that male addicts' incidences of arrests are reduced after admission to a methadone maintenance program and (2) that dropouts from methadone maintenance have incidences of arrests comparable to those incurred while in treatment.
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