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Natural Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Methodological Review of the Literature from 1999 through 2005

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Promoting Self-Change From Addictive Behaviors

Recognition of the importance of the self-change or natural recovery phenomenon with addictive behaviors has led to a considerable increase in research in recent years. The first major review article on this topic, published in 2000 by Sobell, Ellingstad, and Sobell, reviewed 38 studies of natural recovery that covered almost 40 years of research.

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    José Luis Carballo, José Ramón Fernández-Hermida, Roberto Secades-Villa & Olaya García-Rodríguez

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    Linda Carter Sobell & Mariam Dum

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Carballo, J.L., Fernández-Hermida, J.R., Secades-Villa, R., Sobell, L.C., Dum, M., García-Rodríguez, O. (2007). Natural Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Methodological Review of the Literature from 1999 through 2005. In: Klingemann, H., Sobell, L.C. (eds) Promoting Self-Change From Addictive Behaviors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71287-1_5

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