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If New York can build a well-resourced and well-designed mandatory treatment initiative, addicted people, their loved ones and the broader community will all benefit enormously. 0.800

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Community , New York , Addiction

Simplified: New York can build a well-resourced and well-designed mandatory treatment initiative addicted people and the community will benefit

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6 days ago
Judges, whether they are evaluating requests for involuntary commitment from health professionals or overseeing addicted patients themselves in a drug court, must be well versed in the best scientific... 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Law , Addiction

Simplified: Judges must be well versed in scientific evidence on addiction and its treatment

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6 days ago
Treatment programs should be guided by the best evidence, as well as being clean, safe and respectful. 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Addiction

Simplified: Treatment programs should be guided by best evidence clean safe and respectful

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6 days ago
All that said, mandated treatment programs can only work if they are well resourced and thoughtfully implemented. 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Addiction

Simplified: Mandated treatment programs can only work if well resourced and thoughtfully implemented

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6 days ago
In a national sample of 476 individuals who had sought treatment for an alcohol problem, more than nine in 10 reported being pressured to quit or change their drinking by their family, spouse or partn... 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Statistics , Addiction , Alcohol

Simplified: National sample of 476 individuals more than nine in 10 reported being pressured to quit drinking

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6 days ago
But none of those studies compared the results of involuntary treatment to the results of getting no treatment, the most pertinent comparison. 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Addiction , Study

Simplified: Studies did not compare involuntary treatment to no treatment the most pertinent comparison

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6 days ago
A new review of 22 studies found “a lack of high-quality evidence” in favor of or against involuntary treatment for addiction. 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Statistics , Addiction , Study

Simplified: Review of 22 studies found a lack of high-quality evidence for or against involuntary treatment for addiction

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6 days ago
Other studies found that mandated patients do somewhat worse or the same as voluntary patients. 0.800

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Statistics , Addiction , Study

Simplified: Other studies found mandated patients do somewhat worse or the same as voluntary patients

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6 days ago
Besides, one of the largest and longest-term studies on this followed 2,095 addicted patients and found that, one year after treatment, those whose care was mandated were somewhat more likely to avoid... 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Statistics , Addiction , Study

Simplified: Study followed 2095 addicted patients mandated care patients were more likely to avoid drug use one year after treatment

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6 days ago
Further, in comparison to their peers who had voluntarily sought treatment within the justice system, the patients whose care was mandated were less likely to be rearrested. 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Crime , Statistics , Addiction

Simplified: Mandated care patients were less likely to be rearrested compared to voluntary patients in the justice system

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6 days ago
Because the alternative to mandated treatment in places like New York City is usually not voluntary treatment, but no treatment at all — life on the street with the most lethal illicit drug supply in... 0.900

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Addiction , New York City , Drugs

Simplified: Alternative to mandated treatment in New York City is usually no treatment at all life on the street with lethal illicit drug supply

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6 days ago
It should. 0.800

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Law , New York , Addiction

Simplified: New York should consider addiction alone a sufficient legal foundation to mandate care

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6 days ago
But New York is among the minority that does not consider addiction alone a sufficient legal foundation to mandate care. 1.000

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Law , New York , Addiction

Simplified: New York does not consider addiction alone a sufficient legal foundation to mandate care

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6 days ago
But mandated treatment, if properly implemented, can help addicted people and the communities where they live. 0.700

👤 Keith Humphreys 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Community , Addiction

Simplified: Mandated treatment can help addicted people and communities if properly implemented

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6 days ago
Mayor Eric Adams’s recent proposal to force addicted New Yorkers into treatment if they pose a risk to themselves or others is “horrific,” one activist said. 0.900

👤 one activist 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Policy , New York , Addiction

Simplified: Activist said Mayor Eric Adams' proposal to force addicted New Yorkers into treatment is horrific

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6 days ago
Another said the plan “sends a chill up my spine.” 0.900

👤 Another 📋 Opinion Article 🏷️ Health , Policy , Addiction

Simplified: Another person said the plan sends a chill up my spine

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6 days ago