La relation entre cures de substitution à la méthadone et prévention de la délinquance : une réponse critique à Niveau et Laureau

Effects of drug substitution programs on offending among drug‐addicts

“…The first one, carried out by Niveau et al (2002) reports a significant positive correlation of crime known to the police in Geneva with the number of addicts in MMT (with r of 0.71 [0.73; 0.68]). In a reaction, however, Aebi (2001) observed that the overall population of drug addicts needs to be taken into account in such a trend analysis. When this is done, the effect turns in favour of MMT with a significant r of -0.19 [-0.14;-0.24].…”