Drug Treatment Takes Time To Succeed

Posted by FoM on June 24, 2001 at 10:25:02 PT By Robert Collier, Chronicle Staff Writer  Source: San Francisco Chronicle   If there's anything backers and opponents of Proposition 36 agree on, it's that most of the drug treatment funded under the measure will fail -- at least in the short term. Many of the measure's most ardent defenders are quietly trying to dampen expectations that its hundreds of millions of dollars in counseling services will help addicts kick their habits fast. Get used to failure, they say. In California and across the nation, the vast majority of people getting treatment relapse into drug use after leaving the programs. Snipped Home    Comment    Email    Register    Recent Comments    Help

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