Many drug services are concerned that this new additional requirement in probation orders will mean 'sentenced to treatment' and have expressed an unwillingness to co-operate. Paul Hayes, who headed Inner London's Demonstration Unit in their recent research and policy development initiative on drug and alcohol misusers, outlines the confused intentions behind the new law and discusses both the provision's potential and the practical difficulties which will affect implementation.
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