NCJ Number
143042
Date Published
1992
Length
198 pages
Annotation
Data for this case study of a residential drug treatment facility (DTF) located in the midwest were obtained primarily through a counselor's participant observation from April 1984 to 1986.
Abstract
The case study presents profiles of the DTF's residents and its counselors; analyzes the political economy of DTF from the outside, the inside, and historically; considers the several contradictory ideologies operating in daily life in DTF; and concludes that this treatment facility's objective of thought reform and behavioral control rather than therapy serves to confirm the addict lifestyle for most of its patients. Residents tolerate their tight control at this midwestern facility because the program's ideology is the only one available to them. They cannot formulate an alternative ideology because efforts to do so are repressed. 25 notes and 70 references