An undergraduate in arts # 3

Source Text:

“We recognize that by discharging his patient to a shooting-gallery hotel we lost all the gains made in hospital,” says de Vlaming. Instead, the team tries to get her admitted to 1 to 3 recovery homes in the suburbs, where she can keep taking methadone, be taught life skills and receive counselling in relapse prevention. Patients stay an average of 41 days.

Jones 1998, p. 172

Source:

Jones, Deborah. “Vancouver’s Vision of Hell Requires Special Type of MD”. Vancouver: Canadian Medical Association Journal Vol.159 Issue 2 p169-173 07/28/98

Writer’s Text:

An example of a program that has been met with success is the use of recovery homes in which addicts are given methadone, taught life skills and counselled on their behaviors.

Writer’s comment:

This is just a point. It was a big long paragraph, and I just stated three main points. They state that in a different context, but I took the key points out of it.