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The article deals with the effects of anesthesia and medical sotsialnogoy character. Today addiction − a disease that has its etiological, epidemiological and clinical patterns. Velocity distribution and population coverage has all the signs of the epidemic. At this stage the disease has all but one − the recovery, that is not return to baseline health and social status.

Health officials have promoted case management as a promising intervention in substance abuse treatment (Ridgely & Willenbring, 1992). The relationship between organizational mission combined with case management and different types of outcomes has not been explored in studies, but they are worth noting and exploring further. This study, which is part of a larger clinical trial, examined the 3-, 6-, and 12-month effectiveness of case management in a residential setting for individuals treated for substance abuse. Clients who agreed to participate were randomly assigned to one of four study groups. Two groups received face-to-face case management and one telecommunication case management, while the fourth was the control group. Results from the analysis revealed only modest support for the effectiveness of case management as a supplement to traditional treatment. The face-to-face case-managed groups achieved improvements on the legal, employment, and psychiatric domains exceeding that achieved by the control group. Because of the short-term follow-up of the study, conclusive evidence of the effects of case management could not be drawn. This study is a valuable stepping stone, however, to further research in the field and as an aid to policymakers who are interested in knowing more about the effects of case management.

This essay evaluates the application of transitional justice to the context of historical abuse in peaceful, consolidated democracies, in particular the Republic of Ireland. 1 Examining Ireland's efforts at repairing its past from such a perspective reveals an unwillingness by state authorities and Christian churches and religious orders to embrace the necessity of fundamental social, legal, and political transformation when addressing widespread and systemic historical abuse. 2 In Irish efforts to address historical abuse across a range of contexts, power remains out of the hands of victim-survivors and of those traditionally marginalized in society. Instead, in agreement with Georges Balandier, I argue that "the supreme ruse of power is to allow itself to be contested ritually in order to consolidate itself more effectively." 3 Recent state responses to historical abuse contribute to such a consolidation of power. Although public …