Abstract
A number of legal, niedical-psychiatric, and social develop ments since the early 1900's have culminated in what is currently one of the main modalities for the treatment of narcotic drug addiction: civil commitment to an initial inpatient treatment phase followed by continuance of that civil commitment to outpatient supervision. This treatment process combines the legal pressure of civil commitment with the necessary medical- psychiatric and social components in an effort to deal with narcotic addiction in a manner quite different from the tradi tional criminal or strictly psychiatric polar extremes.
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