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 Effectiveness Bank alert: Dependence looks chronic only if vision narrowed to treatment populations
 


Dependence looks chronic only if vision narrowed to treatment populations
Why is addiction so often seen as a progressive chronic disease? It could be because most of the studies and most dependent users who come to light derive from treatment services. Findings from the largest ever US national survey of drink and drug problems show that outside the addiction treatment clinic, remission is the norm and recovery common. After 14 years half the people at some time dependent on alcohol were in remission, a milestone reached for cannabis after six years, and for cocaine after just five. But the kind of dependent drinkers seen by treatment services took much longer to recover.

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