Can Facebook help re-socialize drug users?

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You may be addicted to Facebook, but Monica Gebruikt would happily trade places with you. The 37-year-old Dutch woman is addicted to heroin and cocaine. Now, with help from Dutch charity site Ikgebruik.nl (and branding agency Lemz), Monica is taking part in a social-media experiment. She has set up a Facebook profile, and is asking you to friend her, so that she can expand her social network beyond fellow drug users. By making friends online, the thinking goes, she might be able to gain self confidence and find new interests that will help her quit using.

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