...Katerina Flora Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand deeply the important elements of the reintegration phase of recovery. Design/methodology/approach The participants were 14 people suffering from addiction to drugs, who met the criteria for substance use disorder according...

...’ campaign against drugs, the approaches implemented by the government, current state and research developments of TCs, and its resulting impact on contemporary evidence-based treatment for addiction in the country. Findings A treatment framework outlining a recovery-oriented therapeutic community (ROTC...

...”. This is compatible with the literature on addiction recovery which has shown that identity change is central to this process. While much of the earlier literature focussed primarily on an individual analysis of change, there is a growing body of research showing the important contribution that social networks...

... of the opportunity to maximise the child's potential; and the care that is given providing safety but not recovery. Children in foster care have been found to have undetected PTSD at rates of between 25 and 60 per cent, compared to a rate of 14 per cent in Vietnam veterans (Pecora et al., 2005...