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Drugs, crime, and HIV
C G Leukefeld1, M A Gallego, D Farabee
1Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536-0080, USA.
Substance Use & Misuse
|May 1, 1997
Summary
Criminal justice authority can help keep drug users in treatment, reducing drug use and HIV spread. However, treatment providers perceive a conflict between treatment and control, limiting its use.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Criminology
- Addiction Medicine
Background:
- Drug use and injection are significant public health concerns, contributing to HIV transmission.
- Criminal justice system involvement is increasingly considered as a strategy to engage individuals in treatment.
- Understanding provider perspectives is crucial for implementing integrated treatment and justice approaches.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the potential of criminal justice authority in maintaining drug users in treatment.
- To identify factors influencing the utilization of criminal justice authority by drug treatment providers.
- To assess the impact of this approach on reducing drug use, injection, and HIV transmission.
Main Methods:
- The study discusses the theoretical application of criminal justice authority in treatment adherence.
- It examines the hypothesized perceptions of community drug treatment providers regarding control versus therapeutic goals.
Main Results:
- The limited use of criminal justice authority by providers is hypothesized to stem from a perceived conflict between treatment and control.
- This perception may hinder efforts to decrease drug use, injection, and HIV spread.
Conclusions:
- Integrating criminal justice authority into drug treatment requires addressing provider perceptions of control.
- Overcoming this perceived dichotomy is essential for leveraging the criminal justice system to improve public health outcomes related to drug use and HIV.