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Civil Commitment for Drug Dependency
Author(s) -
Shatwell K. O.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1971.tb00459.x
Subject(s) - legislation , project commissioning , dependency (uml) , publishing , drug , political science , law , point (geometry) , criminology , public relations , public administration , sociology , psychology , engineering , psychiatry , geometry , mathematics , systems engineering
In recent proposals for new legislation in New South Wales for dealing with drug‐dependent persons, opinion has been sharply divided over the issues for and against civil commitment for drug abuse per se . This paper examines the situation as seen from a legal point of view.