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dc.contributor.authorArdill, Allan
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-05T00:41:55Z
dc.date.available2019-12-05T00:41:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn1320-159X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/389448
dc.description.abstractIn 2017 and 2018 Australia almost implemented laws to require unemployed people to undertake mandatory drug testing and treatment. Debate about linking welfare with mandatory drug treatment suffers from the complexity and paucity of research specifically about the efficacy of mandatory welfare drug treatment. This allows the possibility for mandatory welfare drug treatment to remain on the political horizon. This article situates the Australian proposal to introduce mandatory drug treatment for the unemployed within the relevant research literature. It concludes that the literature shows there is little chance of efficacy if welfare is linked with mandatory drug treatment. Instead, cost ineffectiveness and perverse outcomes are more probable than treatment efficacy.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherThomson Reuters
dc.publisher.urihttp://legal.thomsonreuters.com.au/journal-of-law-and-medicine-online/productdetail/97183
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom800
dc.relation.ispartofpageto814
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Law and Medicine
dc.relation.ispartofvolume26
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMedical and health law
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth policy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode480412
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440706
dc.titleMandatory Welfare Drug Treatment in Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationArdill, A, Mandatory Welfare Drug Treatment in Australia, Journal of Law and Medicine, 2019, 26, pp. 800-817
dc.date.updated2019-11-04T09:27:21Z
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