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The influence of heroin prescription on the delinquency of opiate addicts
Duration of the Project
12/2001 - 12/2006
Staff
Dr. Rebecca Löbmann
Christian Wöller
Funding
Federal Ministry of Health and participating cities/laender
Short description
The Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony participates in the German model project on heroin prescription for opiate addicts. The study aims at answering the question, if delinquency decreases more in the heroin prescription group compared to a methadone control group. To this goal, self-reported data on delinquency as well as police data from the federal case statistics of the Laender are investigated. last updated 05.2006
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