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The Swiss Heroin maintenance experiment in 1992 that had 1,000 users results were. Base line numbers are in brackets"[]"
[Base line] After 1 year
Bad physical health status [27%] 10%
Poor mental health [48%] 18%
daily illegal heroin use [86%] 3%
cocaine use [31%] 7%
illegal income source [70%] 14%(47 )

To set a new course for a new drug treatment its best we follow Stanton Peele's advice "Only when private treatment centers are motivated to participate in actual clinical trials will an effective alcoholism treatment system be possible in the United States."(48 ).

Well this is at least a start

Every year state and federal government spend 15 billion on substance abuse treatment insurers pay five billion more. The Oregon legislature took the pragmatic approach mandated that treatment programs that receive state funds are to use evidence based practices. Still there is resistance to an evidence base treatment, many are addicts who have beat there addictions the old way and don't understand drug treatment is not one size fits all (49 ).