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Best Practices : Substance Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation

Acknowledgments

Health Canada is grateful to the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC), the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba (AFM) and the Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) Division of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health for their support of this project , and to Lorraine Adam and Roberta Coulter (AFM), Bob Hunter ( AADAC) and A lan O gborne (ARF) for their significant efforts as members of the project working committee. Thanks are also extended to Gillian Leigh , Marconi Campus, Nova Scotia Community College, for preparing the annotated bibliography and to Cam Wild and Garth Martin of ARF who wrote the sections on mandatory treatment and residential versus outpatient treatment, respectively. Finally, thanks are due Margo Hawley of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) for overseeing the search of the literature and Gary Roberts of CCSA for coordinating this project.