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To address part of your question Islander. There is no magic bullet where drug addiction is concerned. The relapse rate is pretty constant no matter what the flavour of the month is in terms of detox and rehab - and it's extremely high.
My very personal opinion is that the majority of people who benefit from diversion programmes and get their shit together as a result of them would probably have done so on their own eventually. It's really popular here to make make anger management and substance abuse programmes part of just about everyone's sentence - custodial or not - but in my experience they make a difference in a tiny fraction of people's lives. I hope that at least some of the people who I've guided through those programmes have remembered the tools I've taught them and found them useful in later life, but when they're made mandatory you're pretty much undermining the very foundation on which they are based and my personal opinion is that perhaps we'd get better results in terms of rehabilitation if there was less of a scattergun approach applied to the concept.
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