title: Griffith Edwards, the Addiction Research Unit and research on the criminal justice system.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This paper reviews the early work of Griffith Edwards and his colleagues on alcohol in the criminal justice system and outlines the direction of research in this area in the Addiction Research Unit in the 1960s and 1970s. The paper outlines the link between that work and work undertaken in the more recent past in this area.
  
  
  METHODS
  The key papers of the authors are reviewed and the impact of this work on policy and practice is discussed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a rich seam of work on deprived and incarcerated populations that has been under way at the Addiction Research Unit and subsequently the National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London. Griffith Edwards initiated this work that explores the risks and problems experienced by people moving between the health and criminal justice system, and demonstrated the need for better care and continuity across this system.
authors.affiliation: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia1.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Farrell
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, National Addiction Centre, London, UK2.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marsden
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, National Addiction Centre, London, UK2.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Strang
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000266:history; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000266:history; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000266:history*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Alcohol; HIV; drugs; naloxone; overdose; prisons; psychiatric morbidity