Extending the home

Lunchtime at San Patrignano. San Patrignano is the largest drug rehabilitation community in the world. It welcomes men and women with drug abuse problems completely free of charge. The community was set up in 1978, when the founder, Vincenzo Muccioli, invited addicts into his home. Since then, San Patrignano has given tens of thousands of men and women a home, a job, training and skills and the social relationships that are so important in overcoming addiction. Image courtesy of San Patrignano.

Residential communities for care and cure, for example moving beyond addiction at San Patrignano, the residential community aimed at cutting drug addiction based in Italy that has been replicated in several countries.