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Mapping routes to recovery and the role of recovery groups and communities

What Do Eminent International Experts Tell Us?. Addiction is not self-curing. Left alone, addiction only gets worse, leading to total degradation, to prison, and ultimately to death" Robert DupontDirector of NIDA1993As with treatments for these other chronic medical conditions [hypertension

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Mapping routes to recovery and the role of recovery groups and communities

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    1. Mapping routes to recovery and the role of recovery groups and communities Dr David Best Reader in Criminal Justice University of the West of Scotland

    2. What Do Eminent International Experts Tell Us? “Addiction is not self-curing. Left alone, addiction only gets worse, leading to total degradation, to prison, and ultimately to death” Robert Dupont Director of NIDA 1993 “As with treatments for these other chronic medical conditions [hypertension, diabetes, asthma], there is no cure for addiction” O’Brien and McLellan, The Lancet, 1996

    3. So What Do Clients Typically Get in Treatment (1) – Birmingham review Mean length of last session = 46.6 minutes = One hour and thirty-three minutes per month Or 18.6 hours per year Of which 10 minutes per session is ‘therapeutic’ = 4 hours of therapeutic activity per year

    4. Time spent (in minutes) in last drug working session

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