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The Validity of Addict Notifications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Joy Mott  and
John Macmillan
Joy Mott
Affiliation:
Home Office Research Unit, Romney House, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DY
John Macmillan
Affiliation:
Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough, Teesside TS1 3BA
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Summary

Two representative samples of males first notified as addicts during 1969, one by hospitals and the other by penal establishments, were followed up for five years. It was found that 95 per cent of the hospital sample, but only 30 per cent of the penal sample, were addicted to opiates at some time during this follow-up, as judged by Home Office records. Notification may depend as much upon the setting and circumstances in which doctors see their patients as on their clinical judgement of a ‘notifiable’ case of addiction.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 134 , Issue 3 , March 1979 , pp. 264 - 268
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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