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R Sartor

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PubMed1991

The social impact of drug abuse on community life.

Drug abuse is often accompanied by a devastating social impact upon community life. The present article focuses on the adverse effect of drug abuse on industry, education and training and the family, as well as on its contribution to violence, crime, financial problems, housing problems, homelessness and vagrancy.

Crime↗
PubMed1989

The therapeutic community model in the treatment of drug dependence: its advantages and disadvantages.

There are many and varied models for the treatment of drug dependence. However, the one that has received the most acclaim in modern day psychosocial medicine is the therapeutic community model. In recent years, this model, as first espoused, has evolved, but the basic goals and principles of a therapeutic community have remained a part of many modern inpatient rehabilitation settings throughout the world. Phoenix House, situated in Johannesburg, is the only long term inpatient rehabilitation unit in Southern Africa that utilizes a therapeutic community model and it is submitted that there are certain definite advantages to the use of this approach in the treatment of drug dependence. This model, however, is not without shortcomings, and this article examines both the advantages and the shortcomings of this treatment modality as identified at Phoenix House.

Africa, Southern↗