therapeutic community

Quality Measurers of Therapeutic Communities for Substance Dependence

Scientific article

20 December 2017

Abstract Background In Latin America, substance related disorders are highly prevalent and one of the treatment strategies is the Therapeutic Communities (TCs), however, in Latin America there is scarce data about this treatment strategies...

For Whom Does Prison-Based Drug Treatment Work? Results from a Randomized Experiment

Scientific article

30 November 2014

For the first time in a prison setting, a randomised trial has rigorously compared intensive residential therapeutic community treatment to outpatient counselling. Confounding expectations, the US prison for problem drug users which hosted...