Many drug users cure themselves
Many drug users cure themselves of dependency without ever contacting professionals and that many others could be encouraged to do the same.
Anni Stonebridge of Smart Recovery UK and the WIRED Initiative, at a seminar convened at the Scottish Parliament by the RSA Commission and the Association of Drug Action Teams in Scotland in February 2006. See also Patrick Biernacki, Pathways from heroin addiction: recovery without treatment, Temple University Press, 1986.