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Many studies have reported strong associations between substance misuse and violent crime. 1 But the population impact of people diagnosed with substance use disorders on such crime is not known. Calculating the population impact and the relative importance of different classes of drugs is necessary to estimate the likely public health effect of any developments in services and treatment interventions in preventing violent crime.
Grann et al. (Thu,) studied this question.