DRUGS AND TREATMENT IN UNITED KINGDOM

Drugs and Treatment in United Kingdom

Drugs and Treatment in United Kingdom

Introduction

The paper is related to the drugs and treatment in UK, which is an important aspects to study as the drugs and its treatments are imperative elements to study. Moreover, the study particularly focuses on the patients in UK who take drug treatments; besides it, the study also focuses on the behaviors of patients before and after the treatment from drugs in context of criminal offences.

Research Questions

- Is there association between patients who take drug treatments seriously and males who are involved in treatment of drugs?

- Is there association between patients who take drug treatments seriously and females who are involved in treatment of drugs?

Hypothesis

H 1: There is association between patients who take drug treatments seriously and males who are involved in treatment of drugs.

H 2: There is association between patients who take drug treatments seriously and females who are involved in treatment of drugs.

Variables

The variables that are analyzed in the study are below;

Patients in United Kingdom taking Drug Treatments seriously

Males in treatment from drugs in United Kingdom

Females in treatment from drugs in United Kingdom

Analysis of Data

Descriptive Statistics

Mean

Std. Deviation

N

Patients taking Drug Treatments seriously

7573.2

5442.62921

9

Males in treatment from drugs

16633

11973.47085

9

Females in treatment from drugs

6086.2

4477.70543

9

From the results of the descriptive table, it is reflected that the mean and standard deviation of the all the variables that include patients who take drug treatments seriously, males in treatment from drugs and females in treatment from drugs. The most imperative values of the above table are means and the standard deviation of the variables which are crucial to study as these values shows how accurate the data is. It is observed from the table that the standard deviation of males of UK in treatment from drugs is high as compared to the females and patients who take drug treatments seriously.

Correlations

Patients taking Drug Treatments seriously

Males in treatment from drugs

Females in treatment from drugs

Pearson Correlation

Patients taking Drug Treatments seriously

1.000

.997

.980

Males in treatment from drugs

.997

1.000

.962

Females in treatment from drugs

.980

.962

1.000

Sig. (1 - tailed)

Patients taking Drug Treatments seriously

.

.000

.000

Males in treatment from drugs

.000

.

.000

Females in treatment from drugs

.000

.000

.

N

Patients taking Drug Treatments seriously

9

9

9

Males in treatment from drugs

9

9

9

Females in treatment from drugs

9

9

9

It is found from the correlation analysis that the correlation exists among patients who take drug treatments seriously, males in treatment from drugs and females in treatment from drugs because the Pearson correlation coefficient value is statistically significant that is it is are less than 0.05 which presents that the significance value is significant (Levine, 2008). In this context, from the assessment of the Pearson correlation coefficient, it is found that the value is in positive that is 0.977 and 0.980 for males and females of UK in treatment from drugs.

Offence group against Drug Users

Number of charges

Percentage difference

Year before Treatment

Year after Treatment

Malicious or criminal damage

97

24

- 75 %

Drugs (small- scale supply and possession; export, import, supply or production

505

149

- 70 %

Handling; forgery and fraud;

366

123

- 66 %

Taking and driving away and related offences; drink driving offences; other motoring offences

509

185

- 64 %

Prostitution or ...