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San Patrignano: Lessons from the Italian Experience

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In this chapter, the authors outline the Italian therapeutic community model and its main characteristics, placing it within the larger system of care for addiction in Italy. San Patrignano (SanPa), Italy’s largest therapeutic community (TC), is introduced with particular emphasis on its history and organization. Two independent follow-up studies of individuals treated at SanPa and a retention-in-treatment study, Community Outcome, are described. Study outcomes are connected to some of SanPa’s characteristics which are common to the Italian TC model. Outcomes demonstrating particular effectiveness in treatment retention and stable recovery with reintegration into society and the labor market are highlighted.

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  1. Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Gabriele Manella, Giovanni Pieretti & Alessandra Landi

  2. Centro Studi Explora, Padua, Italy

    Bruno Genetti

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  1. Gabriele Manella
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Correspondence to Gabriele Manella .

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  1. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

    Jonathan D. Avery

  2. Payne Whitney Clinic of New York-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

    Kristopher A. Kast

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Manella, G., Pieretti, G., Landi, A., Genetti, B. (2019). San Patrignano: Lessons from the Italian Experience. In: Avery, J., Kast, K. (eds) The Opioid Epidemic and the Therapeutic Community Model. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26273-0_9

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