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Article: The relationship between amphetamine use, crime and psychiatric disorder among prisoners in New South Wales.
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- Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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The study used data from a survey of the mental health of prisoners to examine possible links between amphet amine use, psychiatric disorder and the alleged offences for which the inmate was received to NSW prisons. Ethical approval was obtained to examine data from inmates received to NSW prisons in 2001. Prisoners had been interviewed using the CIDI auto and several other structured questionnaires, using methodology similar to the National Mental Health Survey, Data analysis was carried out in the form of chi-square frequency tables and logistic regression, About a third of the inmates received to NSW prisons during the study period had been using amphetamines in the 12 ...