Abstract
The pendulum of drug addiction treatment has yet to come to rest. It has swung from the punitive position of imprisonment to more humanistic forms. Civil court commitment now competes with prison sentences. If we can imagine a spectrum of different treatment modalities, we can better deal with the reality of different diagnostic classifications of drug addicts (Ausubel, 1948). We cannot dismiss the argument of different etiology and cultural background in individual addicts, which serves to militate against fitting all into the Procrustean bed of psychoanalysis.
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Conrad, H.T. (1977). Psychiatric Treatment of Narcotic Addiction. In: Martin, W.R. (eds) Drug Addiction I. Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie / Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 45 / 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66612-4_5
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