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Saturday, August 14, 2010

WHY IS NATURAL RECOVERY SO COMMON FOR ADDICTIVE DISORDERS?


In their summary of the current state of self-change research, Klingemann, Sobell & Sobell recommended making comparisons of natural recovery ‘for different
types of problems and in different cultures’. Below are a few speculations about why natural recovery for addictive disorders is so common, based on clues distilled from epidemiological surveys comparing different disorders, in different groups and across decades.
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