A New Approach to Reducing Heavy Drinking and Alcohol-Involved Crime? Insights from RAND Research on 24/7 Sobriety Programs
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Can a criminal justice alcohol abstention programme with swift, certain, and modest sanctions (24/7 Sobriety) reduce population mortality? A retrospective observational study.
BACKGROUND In the UK and USA, various jurisdictions have launched new approaches for managing alcohol-involved offenders that might have public health implications. These programmes require participants to abstain from alcohol and submit to frequent alcohol testing with swift, certain, and modest sanctions for violations, with the aim to reduce crime and keep alcohol-involved offenders in the c...
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تاریخ انتشار 2016