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Toward narrowing differences
Author(s) -
Kidger Tim
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1991.tb02622.x
Subject(s) - accreditation , addiction , private sector , outcome (game theory) , addiction treatment , psychology , medicine , political science , business , psychiatry , economics , medical education , law , microeconomics
. David Curson has spent many years working full time in the private sector, and his analysis of this area of addiction treatment is welcome. Private addiction treatment differs from Health Service treatment in that it seems to favour the Minnesota Model more frequently. There is no absence of reliable outcome studies on the effectiveness of the Minnesota Method, but some form of accreditation of treatment techniques in the private sector seems inevitable.