261) Therapeutic Community in Thanyarak Hospital
Author: Thajchayapong M.
Year: 1990
Source: Bulletin of the Department of Medical Services. Vol. 15, No. 1, January 1990, Page 29-35
Therapeutic community is a new rehabilitation modality that emphasizes behavioral change of drug abusers by peer pressure and group therapy. The process is time consuming and tether costly, but effective in prevention of repeated addiction a swell as crime, since the abusers will be kept for a certain period that deprives them of going back to the motivating environment to drug abuse....