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Waddiloves Hospital - An Open Forensic Psychiatric Unit

NCJ Number
84922
Journal
Medicine Science and the Law Volume: 22 Issue: 3 Dated: (July 1982) Pages: 199-202
Author(s)
H B Milne; P J W Wood
Date Published
1982
Length
4 pages
Annotation
The paper describes the background to Waddiloves Hospital and outlines the treatment approach.
Abstract
Aspects of 188 admissions (141 males and 47 females) are given: the patients were young, unmarried and lacked social stability, 28 percent were referred by the Courts and the main diagnoses were drug or alcohol dependence and personality disorder. (Publisher abstract)

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