[en] Background: TADAM, a randomised controlled trial of heroin-assisted treatment, will begin in Liège, Belgium, in 2010. This trial will compare two groups of patients: one in a heroin-assisted treatment and the other in oral methadone treatment. In this new medical treatment, the criminal behaviour of the patients will also be assessed. It is one of the three efficacy criteria. Why?
Methodology: We based our presentation on papers published on heroin-assisted treatment concerning changes in criminal behaviour.
Results: Heroin-assisted treatment of treatment resistant heroin addicts has been successfully tested in six countries: Switzerland, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Canada and United-Kingdom. Each country has also assessed the criminal behaviour before and after the treatment with better results for heroin-assisted treatment than for methadone treatment.
Conclusion: HAT seems a good way to treat criminal behaviour of a group: severely heroin addicts who already tried other treatments.
Disciplines :
Public health, health care sciences & services
Author, co-author :
Demaret, Isabelle ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Psychiatrie et psychologie médicale
Litran, Géraldine
ANSSEAU, Marc ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Psychiatrie et psychologie médicale
Lemaître, André ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Criminologie
Language :
English
Title :
Heroin-Assisted Treatment as a treatment of criminal behaviour?
Publication date :
08 September 2010
Event name :
10th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology - Crime and Criminology: from Individuals to Organizations,
