Abstract
In drug treatment in the past 15 years, the phrase “therapeutic community” referred to small communal groups of recovering addicts who had banded together for the purpose of helping each other stay drug-free and learn responsible living. The concept of the “other therapeutic community” is the city - its agencies, businesses, courts, and people … all those significant in the addict's life. When necessary parts of the community are coordinated they are structured into a therapeutic milieu.
This paper presents a workable theoretical framework for developing the other therapeutic community and illustrates how the authors, over a period of three years' work with addicts, integrated a large midwest community into a treatment system for addict rehabilitation.
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