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"A Controlled Experiment on the Use of Court Probation for Drunk Arrests"
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In the study, 301 public drunkenness offenders were sentenced by the court to one of three "treatment programs".
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So your study that you cited said exactly the same thing I said - that having a judge order someone to go hear about a recovery program is rarely effective.
Maybe an example will help:
Study really hard, get into Harvard, then work your ass off.
Are you rich yet? No? Working hard and going to Harvard must not work. Oh, having me tell you about something isn't the same as if you actually do it?
Again, most people, probably 90%, who are introduced to a recovery system by a judge's order, against their will, will not put that system into practice and will therefore not benefit from what they do not do.
To judge the effectiveness of anything based on the fact that people who don't want to do it and therefore don't do it don't get results is nuts. If you want to know whether something is effective, you look at the people who did it, not the unwilling people who were ordered to hear about it.