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Drug treatment policies, especially the medical discourse as it is known in the West and especially in the USA (e.g., Volkow et al. in N Engl J Med 374:363–371, 2016), has different implications in the post-Soviet Azerbaijan where the medical paradigm is a relatively new phenomenon in drug treatment practice. The existing literature shows that the medical approach to drug treatment is also a relatively new phenomenon in the West with the example of Germany, where treatment was based on a full-abstinence model until the 1980s (Schmid in Drogenhilfe in Deutschland: Entstehung und Entwicklung 1970–2000. Campus Verlag, 2013).

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Sultan, A. (2022). The Stake of a Comparative Approach. In: Recovering Assemblages. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1235-1_3

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