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John.
Legally coerced treatment for heroin addicted offenders: ethical and policy
issues
Professor Wayne Hall
NHMRC Australia Fellow, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research
10-11am, Wednesday 14 July 2010
Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW, Sydney (entry off Macquarie St)
Speaker
Wayne Hall is an NHMRC Australia Fellow in addiction neuroethics at the
University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research. He was formerly:
Professor of Public Health Policy in the School of Population Health
(2005-2010) and Director of the Office of Public Policy and Ethics at the
Institute for Molecular Bioscience (2001-2005) at the University of
Queensland; and Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
at UNSW (1994-2001). He has advised the World Health Organization on: the
health effects of cannabis use; the effectiveness of drug substitution
treatment; the scientific quality of the Swiss heroin trials; the
contribution of illicit drug use to the global burden of disease; and the
ethical implications of genetic and neuroscience research on addiction.
In 2001 he was identified by the Institute for Scientific Analysis as one
of the world's most highly cited social scientists in the past 20 years.
He was awarded an NHMRC Australia Fellowship in 2009 to research the
public health, social policy and ethical implications of genetic and
neuroscience research on drug use and addiction.
Abstract
Legally coerced addiction treatment is provided as an alternative to
imprisonment for persons who have been charged with or convicted of an
offence to which their drug dependence has contributed e.g. drug
distribution or property offences committed to fund their drug use. This
paper, conducted in collaboration with Dr Jayne Lucke from the University
of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, outlines the case for
providing such treatment, describes the various ways in which such
treatment can be provided at different stages in the criminal justice
system; discusses the ethical issues raised by using different degrees of
legal coercion and different types of addiction treatment (e.g. drug free
TCs and opioid maintenance treatment); and briefly reviews the evidence on
the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of this approach to treating
addicted offenders. In the light of this evidence, the paper considers the
evidence base for and policy issues raised by New South Wales Compulsory
Drug Treatment Program.
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