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Is There a Way out of This Clinic? An Adult and Community Education Perspective on Methadone and the Absence of Rehabilitation
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O'Brien, Thomas – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2007
This paper critically examines methadone treatment from the perspective of adult and community education and questions the absence of rehabilitation. It identifies biomedicine and the methodology of evidence based medicine as the discourses that determine our understanding of addiction and treatment. It is especially critical of psychiatry for the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Education, Psychiatry, Drug Therapy