An ethnographic case study of a “failed” single goal (abstinence) based individual and group therapy treatment of a New York City, Harlem-based, single, young-adult of color, IDU, mother, which ended in “death by overdose,” after a period of abstinence, is presented almost 50 years later, in which complex, multidimensional structural barriers, “normed,” consensualized, ideologically-driven preconceptions and an array of contextual, situational and relevant stakeholder factors, which may have resulted in intervention “failure blindness,” are reviewed. The need to introduce failure analysis, blindness and management, as well as success analysis, blindness and management, as integral parts of treatment planning, implementation and assessment is raised.
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