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Please tell me some effective treatment strategies are for a person who has been formally required to enter substance abuse treatment. Please include peer reviewed reference(s).

Please do the same for self referral clients that requires treatment in which they have mild substance disorder. Please provide a reference.

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1. Substance Abuse treatment strategies - 200 words
2. Mild substance abuse treatments - 200 words

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Substance Abuse Treatment Strategies

Substance abuse according to the World Health Organization (2016), "refers to the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol and illicit drugs. Psychoactive substance use can lead to dependence syndrome - a cluster of behavioural, cognitive, and physiological phenomena that develop after repeated substance use and that typically include a strong ...

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