All treatment programmes of the Centre for the Treatment of Addicted People provide parallel programmes of family support, addressing people of the immediate family environment of the addicted (parents, brothers and sisters, children, companions husbands), which have about the same duration as the corresponding treatment programmes.

Different results have been reached for other drugs, with the twelve steps being less beneficial for addicts to illicit substances, and least beneficial to those addicted to the physiologically and psychologically addicting opioids, for which maintenance therapies are the gold standard of care.