ADDICTION RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT

Residential treatment is indicated for patients who do not meet the clinical criteria for hospitalization but whose lives and social interactions have come to focus predominantly on substance use, who lack sufficient social and vocational skills, and who lack substance-free social supports to maintain abstinence in an outpatient setting. Residential treatment of ?3 months is associated with better long-term outcomes in such patients. For patients with an opioid use disorder, therapeutic communities have been found effective.

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