Michael Rowcroft nearly lost his life two years ago in a stabbing, but now he is planning to run more than 300 kilometres to raise money for the rehabilitation centre that helped turn his life around.
Adventure therapy involves group work, physical challenges, and spending time in natural environments outdoors.University of Adelaide addiction studies program director Andrea Gordon said the benefits for those in recovery were clear.
"It can act in a physical way of distraction, something to do, improving fitness … but it also triggers into those pathways that drugs of dependence do as well.
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