Wednesday 25 July 2007

Methadone helps but it doesn't cure

All 63 people at the Gorbals scheme are fighting to stay clean with the help of counsellors and their own specially-devised rehab plan which can include sport and music.

Service manager Sophia Young said: "Methadone is a vital landing place for people who have led chaotic lives for a long time. For them, methadone treatment is a real option, a way of bringing stability back into their lives.

"Methadone helps but it doesn't cure.

"As a society we are now having to look at how we get people completely drug-free.

"The people who come here are not at the crisis stage. They are people who have stabilised and they have come to address their addictions."

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