Advocates of drug-free treatments say their approach has worked for decades; why take chances?

What are needed are new and better medications, not new trials of drug-free treatments.

Very often what residents notice in fellow residents is brought into the group encounters, a centerpiece of Phoenix House's drug-free treatment.

The development of methadone maintenance more or less parallels the growth of effective drug-free treatment.

But your arguments are not strengthened by impatient, dismissive references to drug-free treatment and "psychotherapy."

The 65-year-old Roman Catholic priest is at the center of a growing global movement to help substance abusers by using drug-free, long-term residential treatment.

But practitioners say the success rate of this drug-free, risk-free treatment has made it one of the fastest-growing areas of physical therapy.

This entire facility will be converted to drug-free treatment for inmates who have a problem with cocaine.

Of 87 addicts referred to methadone or drug-free treatment, 28 did not show up, 18 dropped out and 38 remain in treatment, a recent program report showed.

The city plans to invest $5 million in developing a job placement program for addicts who accept drug-free treatment as their ultimate goal.