Evidence from Scottish pilots

A sizeable proportion of clients subject to Drug Court Orders in the Scottish pilots were found to have been able to achieve and sustain reductions in drug use and associated offending behaviour.

G McIvor et al, ‘The operation and effectiveness of the Scottish drug court pilots’, Scottish Executive Social Research, 2006.
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