Halfway Houses
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Halfway houses and treatment outcomes; a relationship between institutional atmosphere and therapeutic effectiveness.
when they leave an institution and have no place to go. Halfway houses first emerged in the 1950s in an attempt to meet recovering alcoholics' needs for food, shelter, counseling and support. And, as the network of alcoholism treatment services grew and diversified in the 1970s, so did halfway houses. In the mid-1950s, there were probably no more than 50 halfway houses in the whole country (1);...
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