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Odyssey House, Inc, is a voluntary nonprofit agency which began as a pilot research program at Metropolitan Hospital in January, 1966. At that time, Dr. A. Ronald Sorvino was assigned the task of evaluating the use of the maintenance drug, cyclazocine. Based on his prior unsuccessful experience with methadone drug maintenance alone, Dr. Sorvino asked me as resident psychiatrist assigned to the ward, to develop a long-term psychotherapeutic setting in which the narcotic addict might be more responsive to psychiatric intervention.
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Densen-Gerber, J. (1984). The Odyssey House Treatment Method. In: Serban, G. (eds) Social and Medical Aspects of Drug Abuse. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6320-0_20
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