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Therapeutic Addiction Communities is treatment center where the patients are treated that reflects a dramatic change in their social behavior by expertise.

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This community is existed for about 40 years. It is a drug free residential setting. It is defined as the treatment center with treatment stages that reflects increased level of personal or social responsibility.

The patient is cured by peer influence, meditation, group process. Through these an individual learn social norms and social responsibility and effective social skills.

It is different from other treatment process as it has its good staff which acts as the key agent of change.

Process

Therapeutic addiction communities are actually a residential community which admits the patient and they reside there as according to their rules. It is a drug free community where treatment is done on the basis of meditation, peer influence etc.

The main advantage of this community center is therapeutic community members. TC members interact in structured and unstructured ways to influence attitudes, perceptions and behavior associated with drug users.

The people who are admitted to therapeutic community had a good past, most of them are rich and good family background in past. But due to any reason everything is devastated. Now the therapeutic addiction community not has to heal their body damages but also mental damages. They have to rehabilitate them as well.

This is done by the TC members and patient have to gain physical and mental health. Patient have to learn the living skills, attitude and value added life style.

Beside TC members other primary agents, which is responsible for healing of patients is the principle of Therapeutic addiction community “self help”. It means patient itself have to contribute to help himself.

Results

As in these community centers the patient has to heal on a principle of “self help”. So results depends on the patient how fast he recovers, moreover a research is conducted, data is collected for 12 months and the result is positive.

Along with that this method of treatment is much better than methadone treatment, outpatient, inpatient and detoxification program and it is proved in research.