Tag: drug addicts

  • Vispassana in prison

    Research looking at the positive effects of a Vispassana course in prison, hold much interest and hope for alcoholics and drug addicts who are prison inmates. The Practice of Positive Criminology A Vipassana Course in Prison Abstract Positive criminology  is a new term for a perspective associated with theories and models that relate to socially […]

  • Therapeutic programs

    Really interesting piece of research by Gila Chen, looking at the effectiveness of different therapeutic programs as part of a process of rehabilitation for recovering addicts. The research piexe was published in The International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminolgy and was entitled  Social Support, Spiritual Program, and Addiction Recovery. Abstract This study compared […]