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2016年2月17日 讯 /生物谷BIOON/ --近日来自约翰霍普金斯大学的一项研究表明，相比附近的卖酒商店及住宅区商店而言，暴力犯罪或许并不易在较近的门诊药物治疗中心（吸毒者的药物治疗中心）发生，这项研究挑战了之前的观点，即认为药物治疗中心会经常吸引犯罪者；文章中研究者对巴尔的摩大约53个资助治疗药物中心附近区域大约2011个暴力犯罪数据进行了分析，结果发现，在大约53个售酒商店和住宅区商店周围区域中有25%的谋杀、强奸和抢劫等案例发生。

该项研究并不包括实际上在售酒商店和住宅区商店中发生的犯罪事件，因为这些地方相比药物治疗中心而言更容易被抢劫。相关研究刊登于the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs上，研究者C. Debra Furr-Holden表示，我们的研究发现，相比于社区中传统的商业门店而言，药物治疗中心并没有增加上述地方发生暴力事件的风险。

很多药物治疗中心或许会因为拥有一定的“声誉”而并不会作为吸引犯罪发生的地方，相比较而言，社区会经常吸引很多类型的商家进驻到距离居民区较近的地方，尽管这些商家在吸引犯罪发生上存在一定风险。研究者Furr-Holden指出，公众的反对使得在未满足服务的区域内建立药物治疗中心变得非常困难。

目前在抵御瘾君子的做法上公众还存在一定的偏见，上瘾可以预防而且可以进行治疗，研究者呼吁社会应当在社区内部增加建立药物治疗中心的数量，以便于对成瘾者进行治疗，但并不能对建立药物治疗中心持否定态度。（生物谷Bioon.com）

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Violent crimes are less likely to occur near outpatient drug treatment centers than near liquor and corner stores, a new study finds.

The findings challenge claims that drug treatment centers attract criminals, according to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers.

The researchers examined 2011 data about violent crime in areas near 53 publicly funded drug treatment centers in Baltimore. They found that areas around 53 liquor and corner stores had 25 percent more murders, rapes, assaults and robberies per business.

The study didn't include crimes that actually occurred in the liquor and corner stores, because they are known to be robbed more often than drug treatment centers.

The study was published recently in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

"Our findings show that drug treatment centers pose no additional risk of violence above and beyond any traditional business in the community," study author C. Debra Furr-Holden said in a Bloomberg news release. Furr-Holden is an associate professor in Bloomberg's Department of Mental Health, in Baltimore.

"They have gotten a reputation as magnets for crime, but the data just don't support that. By contrast, communities often solicit other types of businesses to locate in their neighborhoods, even though they appear to have a more profound effect on attracting crime," she noted.

Public opposition makes it difficult to open drug treatment centers in areas with the largest unmet need for addiction services, Furr-Holden said.

"There's a lot of bias and bigotry against people with addiction problems," study co-author Dr. Adam Milam, said in the news release. "Addiction is preventable and it's treatable. We need to provide treatment centers in the communities where people addicted to drugs live, not say treatment centers aren't welcome here."