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treatment, psychological hctioning) did nothing to alter or diminish the observed relationship
between employment and drug relapse.
Patterns of survival and risk (hazard) for drug relapse are shown in Table 27. For the
comparison group, there was a sizeable drop in cumulative survival fiom 88% to 77% between
nine and twelve months following release fiom prison. Cumulative survival dropped precipitously
fiom 77% to 44% after 15 months. Once again, the 15-month interval appears to be a particularly
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high-risk interval, although the addition of fbrther cases will help clarify survival patterns over
time. The hazard hction shown in Figure 9 reveals a tiny survival advantage enjoyed by TC
inmates after 12 months.
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