Addiction Medicine

Research from J.P. Wojtowicz and colleagues provide new insights into addiction medicine

Published in Physician Law Weekly, September 19th, 2007

"Most state inmates incarcerated under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Department of Corrections are driven to crimes by drug abuse. Understanding the factors contributing to addiction is the first step in developing strategies for successful inmate reintegration," investigators in the United States report.

"This study presents an analysis of inmate addiction and factor association using multivariate analysis procedures on 2003 New Jersey male inmate addiction data to identify significant demographic and criminal justice factors and to quantify the relative proportion of risk of addiction likelihood via the odds ratio measure. Significant factors identified include...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2007-09-19)

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