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Residential Rehabilitation Working Group. (2020) Residential Rehabilitation Working Group: drug and alcohol residential treatment services - preliminary recommendations. Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

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This report provides a set of recommendations to the Scottish Government and other partners involved in reducing the harms caused by problematic use of alcohol and drugs - recommendations which aim to improve access to residential rehabilitation treatment.

Residential rehabilitation treatment for drug and alcohol problems is a well-established intervention acknowledged in the Drug Misuse and Dependence National Clinical Guidelines as an important option for some people requiring treatment. A recently published international review of residential treatment outcomes for substance use disorders, which included a methodologically strong study from Scotland, found evidence for the effectiveness of residential treatment in improving outcomes across a number of substance use and life domains. It is important there is access to this intervention evenly across Scotland and that national models are developed around planning, value for money, commissioning, referral pathways, types of intervention, discharge and aftercare, what constitutes good or best practice and monitoring or regulation


Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Guideline, Report
Drug Type
All substances
Intervention Type
Treatment method, Psychosocial treatment method, Rehabilitation/Recovery
Date
December 2020
Pages
17 p.
Publisher
Scottish Government
Corporate Creators
Residential Rehabilitation Working Group
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
ISBN
978-1-80004-405-0
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