Abstract
Most practitioners in the field of drug treatment believe a person cannot be rehabilitated unless he or she wishes to be. Coercion, they state, could never lead to the incorporation of the personal insights and understandings required to check substance abuse. The author postulates that there is a role for early intervention, based upon coercion, to interrupt self-destructive conduct and set the stage for later treatment.
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