EMCDDA (European Monitoring centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction) has recently published a Fact sheet (No 9/2012) which contains “quotations gleaned from interviews with substance users in 16 countries over the period 1993–2012”.
They chose to use my qualitative study* to include in their report. See p.14:
Others talk about the value of support from people facing similar problems. For example, clients in therapeutic communities describe the highly valued psychosocial support gained from peer relations in the community. For example a Slovakian drug user said:
Back then, I deemed the relationships with lads (drug users) outside as important, but now, when I lost everything and I have only them (those in the therapeutic community), I value the relationships here.
[male, Client in therapeutic community, slovakia]
Read more about my study here: http://janklimas.blogspot.ie/2012/06/trust-usual-suspect-in-old-story-of.html
Read the full EMCDDA report here: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2012/fs-9
*Klimas, J. (2010), ‘Interpersonal relationships during addiction and recovery: A qualitative exploration of the views of clients in therapeutic community’. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Addiction, York, UK. Online at: http://www.addiction-ssa.org/ssa_24.htm