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. 2011;46(4):426-39.
doi: 10.3109/10826084.2010.495762. Epub 2010 Aug 24.

With God's help i can do it: crack users? Formal and informal recovery experiences in El Salvador

Julia Dickson-Gomez  1 , Gloria Bodnar, Carmen Eugenia Guevara, Karla Rodriguez, Lorena Rivas De Mendoza, A Michelle Corbett
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With God's help i can do it: crack users? Formal and informal recovery experiences in El Salvador

Julia Dickson-Gomez et al. Subst Use Misuse. 2011.

Abstract

Crack use has increased dramatically in El Salvador in the last few decades. As with other developing countries with sudden onsets of drug problems, El Salvador has few medical staff trained in addictions treatment. Little research has examined drug users? attempts to reduce or abstain from drug use in countries where government-regulated formal medical treatment for drug addiction is scarce. This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data gathered from active crack users to explore their formal and informal strategies to reduce or abstain from drugs, and compares these with components of informal and formal treatment in developed countries.

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