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 Effectiveness Bank Drug Treatment Matrix cell: Psychosocial treatment; individuals, not programmes
 
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Psychosocial treatment; individuals, not programmes
Every treatment involves direct or indirect human interaction, but this cell is about interventions in which interaction is the main ingredient, from mutual support groups through to professionally delivered psychological programmes. ‘Programmes’ is perhaps the wrong word though. Unlike public health approaches, treatment is essentially the treatment of an individual.

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