Psychostimulant use and reckless or violent behaviour (REV-UP Study)

This pilot project developed a methodology for interviewing police suspects, to investigate whether they had experienced reckless and/or violent (including criminal) behaviour which appeared to be associated with use of psychostimulants and/or other licit or illicit drugs, and whether they attributed such behaviour to their use of psychostimulants and/or other licit or illicit drugs. The project contributed to an understanding of some of the possible consequences of psychostimulant use - reckless and violent behaviour - and offered some evidence relating patterns of criminal behaviour to patterns of drug use, so that changes in criminal behaviour which might occur as a result of changes in drug use could be better predicted.