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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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1. Mapping routes to recovery and the role ofrecovery 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