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Treatment Progress of Substance Dependent Mothers and Their Children at Family House

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Women and their children live together at Family House, Eagleville Hospital and Rehabilitation Center’s residential treatment program founded in 1975. Family House was created to provide a necessary treatment alternative for the female addict with children.

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West, M., Frankel, B., Dalton, J. (1981). Treatment Progress of Substance Dependent Mothers and Their Children at Family House. In: Schecter, A.J. (eds) Drug Dependence and Alcoholism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3614-3_93

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