The relationship between maintenance of the criminal code and group denial in a substance abuse population: its effect on treatment
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The so-called Criminal Code, self-maintained rules of conduct preventing prisoners from reporting drug use or other transgressions of fellow inmates, produces a form of group denial that inhibits successful substance abuse treatment. Prisoners sometimes use anonymous notes to report on other inmates. Relapses occur because treatment programs such as group therapy are hard-pressed to overcome the denial produced by the prisoner culture. Prisoners make treatment progress when they accept responsibility for their own individual lives and actions.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 1995
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Treating impulsivity, irritability, and aggression of antisocial personality disorder with Quetiapine
Article Abstract:
Antisocial personality disorder possesses few effective treatments. Four patients with antisocial personality disorder who were referred to a maximum-security impatient psychiatric facility were analyzed.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 2003
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