Handbook of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings
Get high. Become addicted. Commit crimes. Get arrested and be sent to jail. Get released. Repeat. It's a cycle often destined to persist, in large part because the critical step that is often missing in the process, which is treatment geared toward ensuri
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Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives Series Editors: Thomas P. Gullotta, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, Connecticut Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Roger P. Weissberg, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Carl Leukefeld · Thomas P. Gullotta · John Gregrich Editors
Jessica M. Ramos Research Assistant
Handbook of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings
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Editors Carl Leukefeld Department of Behavioral Science Center on Drug & Alcohol Research University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506, USA [email protected]
Thomas P. Gullotta Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut New London, CT 06320, USA [email protected]
John Gregrich Columbia, MD 21044, USA [email protected]
ISSN 1572-1981 ISBN 978-1-4419-9469-1 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-9470-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-9470-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011934028 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This is a book about the interplay between two issues that dominate the evening news – drugs and criminal behavior. Neither issue is new. Both have plagued American society from its beginning. What is different is our response to these issues. To illustrate, before there was cocaine, heroin, and prescription drugs there was alcohol and tobacco. The fermentation of apples pressed into cider each fall insured American colonists that their daily nutritional needs for fruit would be met by an ample supply of that amber liquid stored in wooden casks and found in cellar holes throughout the colonies. In those casks small microbes ingested sugar and excreted by way of a byproduct alcohol. When the percentage of alcohol climbed to 6, the little critters died in their own waste. With time, later immigrant groups would bring the necessary know
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