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Friday, 27 April, 2012
Teens kick cannabis via family therapy
Cannabis has for many years been considered a soft drug no worse than alcohol. But in recent times its psychologically addictive qualities have been the subject of numerous studies. How do you help people who smoke regularly, especially teenagers, kick the habit? In 2000, Switzerland joined four other countries to study a new treatment approach called multi-dimensional family therapy. The results of that study have now been announced in Geneva and experts say they’ve been successful in addressing the worst cases of addiction. WRS’s Dave Goodman talks to Philip Nielsen from the Phoenix Foundation has been leading the study in Switzerland:
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