This is a program based on the principles of therapeutic communities for incarcerated individuals who abuse drugs. The aim is to reduce recidivism and relapse when returning to the community.
The intervention is based on community norms and uses sanctions and rewards to develop self-control and responsibility. The program takes place in residential settings and is structured into several levels of treatment, during which participants are given greater responsibility.
There are three levels of treatment:
1) Orientation and diagnosis process;
2) Primary treatment with individual and group therapy, rehabilitation resources, and social and emotional skills training; and
3) Reentry process with a relapse prevention plan.