Open AccessImpact of California’s Proposition 36 on the Drug Treatment System: Treatment Capacity and Displacement
Author(s) -
YihIng Hser,
Cheryl Teruya,
Amira K. Brown,
David Huang,
Elizabeth Evans,
M. Douglas Anglin
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2005.069336
Subject(s) - proposition , medicine , drug treatment , family medicine , demography , gerontology , environmental health , sociology , philosophy , epistemology
California's Proposition 36 offers nonviolent drug offenders community-based treatment as an alternative to incarceration or probation without treatment. We examined how treatment capacity changed to accommodate Proposition 36 clients and whether displacement of other clients was an unintended consequence.