HOW TO MAKE AFTERCARE THE RULE RATHER THAN THE EXCEPTION
As this review comments, people treated for substance use often remain precariously balanced between
recovery and relapse. Widely seen as valuable if not essential, aftercare is nevertheless more the
exception than the rule. How to reverse that ratio is the question addressed by these leading US
analysts. In the process they touch on a central UK policy issue: should we be aiming to keep people
in low-level extended treatment contact, or for a clean and relatively rapid exit from the treatment
system?
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