Illicit drugs and delinquency: an examination of the North American work

Their popularity, which they use to their advantage, makes them research subjects which are prolifically exploited in North America. An indication of the reputation acquired by these phenomena in the scientific community can be measured by the impressive quantity of documentation published on the matter. 

Despite the abundance of information, the links between use and criminality are not clearly elucidated. In fact, although a considerable number of scientific articles have shown that there is a certain relationship between the behaviours, there is nothing less certain than the nature of this relationship. 

The same prevalence studies sometimes lead to the development of completely different conceptual schemes. And although several prevalence studies do have a solid methodology, questions may be raised over the scientific rigour of some of the models proposed. 

Now, some of these models are at the root of the interventions aimed at drug addicts. It therefore becomes relevant to question the validity of the theoretical models, the interventions they suggest, the efficacy of the approaches proposed and the customers they target.