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Griffith Edwards, the Addiction Research Unit and research on the criminal justice system
Michael Farrell1, John Marsden2, John Strang2
1National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia1.
Background:
This paper reviews the early work of Griffith Edwards and his colleagues on alcohol in the criminal justice system and outlines the direction of research in this area in the Addiction Research Unit in the 1960s and 1970s. The paper outlines the link between that work and work undertaken in the more recent past in this area.
Methods:
The key papers of the authors are reviewed and the impact of this work on policy and practice is discussed.
Conclusions:
There is a rich seam of work on deprived and incarcerated populations that has been under way at the Addiction Research Unit and subsequently the National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London. Griffith Edwards initiated this work that explores the risks and problems experienced by people moving between the health and criminal justice system, and demonstrated the need for better care and continuity across this system.