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Competing principles and priorities at the junction between care and coercion
Final cell tackles some thorny issues at the junction between care and coercion. An Australian review argues that despite radically different starting points, criminal justice and treatment systems must collaborate to deliver treatment. How far should collaboration go, and do ‘shared goals’ in practice become those of the criminal justice system? Where do we draw the line between the confidentiality of the consulting room versus sharing information with criminal justice and child protection?And why is drinking so prominent among prisoners, but not in prison services?

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One of 25 cells in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, a staff development resource mapping seminal and key research and guidance on alcohol brief interventions and treatment.
Also see hot topics on protecting children, commissioning substance use services, and on whether testing for and sanctioning substance use can displace treatment.

“This [matrices] is a real tour de force. Brilliant.”
Mike Stewart, formerly director of the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, England

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