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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/48272| Title: | Drug dependence treatment service |
| Authors: | Sciberras, Maria |
| Keywords: | Substance abuse -- Treatment -- Malta Drug abuse -- Treatment -- Malta Drug addicts -- Treatment -- Malta Detoxification (Health) -- Malta Rational emotive behavior therapy -- Malta Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 1994 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Department of Psychiatry |
| Citation: | Sciberras, M. (1994). Drug dependence treatment service. In P. Muscat (Ed.), Handbook in Psychiatry, II (pp. 23-24). Malta: University of Malta, Dept. of Psychiatry. |
| Abstract: | The Drug Dependence Treatment Service consists of a number of units, working as a continuum. These are the Out-patient Detox, In-patient Detox, Residential Long Term Detox divided into two units: Unit A and Unit B. Patients attend the Out-patient out of their own free will or are referred from other centres e.g. voluntary organizations such as Caritas or doctors. They are offered a drug substitution treatment by being given alternatives for their drugs of abuse, which substitutes are slowly tailed off. For example methadone substitutes heroin. Patients are also assessed physically. Those who show motivation for change are encouraged to enter the In-patient Detox. This is a strictly closed ward, lasting for 15 days during which time acute detoxification is started, and phyiscal status of patient is monitored. At this stage they are usually cachetic - tire very easily, and are unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/48272 |
| Appears in Collections: | Handbook in Psychiatry II |
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