Services Research Monograph Series: An Evaluation of the California Civil Addict Program.

摘要

The report is a study evaluating the California Civil Addict Program. The major feature of the study involved followup interviews with 756 males admitted to the program in 1962-63, 1964 and 1970, and the report is primarily concerned with these outcome results. The specific aims of the study are: To compare the history of drug use, criminal behavior, employment, and legal status of a 1962-63 writ sample with a comparable group from the same period who continued in the program; To make the same comparison between a sample of 1970 admissions and the earlier treatment group; and To examine the predischarge and postdischarge histories of a sample of successful discharges and determine the background and behavioral differences among those continuing to remain abstinent after discharge, those successfully discharged but subsequently relapsing, and those failing to complete requirements for successful discharge.