Format
Book
Publication Date
Published by / Citation
Drug and Alcohol Findings
Keywords
illegal drugs
treatment
crime
prison
probation
coerced
naltrexone
antagonist
pharmacotherapy
heroin
ethics
offenders
throughcare
side effects
mortality
overdose

Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic. Naltrexone Treatment of Offenders: Ethics and Evidence

Opinion is sharply divided on the ethics and effectiveness of pressuring opioid-dependent offenders to take the opiate-blocker naltrexone. Especially sharp is the controversy over long-acting products not approved for medical use in the UK. Is coercing offenders to accept naltrexone an unacceptable infringement of autonomy, or as caring as holding back someone about (by choice or not) to step off a cliff?