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This is very sad news. Another inspirational figure is gone. Bassin's writings on the drug-free TC are amongst the most coherent and accessible anywhere in the literature. Rowdy Yates Senior Research Fellow Scottish Addiction Studies Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology Section Department of Applied Social Science University of Stirling Tel: +44(0)1786 - 467737 > ---------- > From: Therapeutic Communities on behalf of Craig Fees > Reply To: Therapeutic Communities > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:16 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Online News > > A. Bassin, helped found drug halfway house, dead at 92 > > By Margalit Fox > The New York Times > Posted November 10 2004 > > Alexander Bassin, a founder of Daytop Village, the oldest continuing > residential drug treatment program in the United States, died on Wednesday > at his home in Tallahassee. He was 92. > > http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pobassin10nov10,0,611 > 1339.story?coll=sfla-news-palm > > > > > Dr. Craig Fees > Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre > Church Lane > Toddington > near Cheltenham > Glos. GL54 5DQ > United Kingdom > > Phone/fax 01242 620125 > Email: [log in to unmask] > http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk > > Support the history and future of the field. Make a donation to the > Archive > Endowment Fund online at > http://www.workwithus.org/give/donate/Donate.aspx?SCVOID=142803 > > -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind.