Justification and Feasibility of Community Treatment

Abstract

Community treatment is a Latin American proposal to work with communities in situations of high vulnerability. It is based on working with natural or non-formal networks to reinforce processes of social integration and community care for particularly weakened individuals, families, groups or networks. This paper describes its origins, the essential characteristics of the conceptual and methodological point of view and presents data related to its implementation within the framework of the policies of the Secretaría de Políticas Integrales sobre Drogas (Sedronar, Argentina), showing some of its results, implications, innovations and difficulties.