Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What Is Drug Addiction Treatment for?

The first matrix cell on treatment (as opposed to harm reduction) seems a good time to ask: What is treatment there to do? ‘Cure’ addiction, or promote meaningful and productive lives? Meet patients’ wishes, or aid the government’s welfare-to-work agenda? And what do the patients want? Is treatment pushing them in the opposite direction? Also explore the highly political genesis and results of the two most important UK treatment studies.