Activity Description
A healthcare facility provides residential treatment for people recovering from addiction as part of continuum of care for effective treatment. It is characterized by a high level of psychological and social intervention at a critical stage of recovery. Residential treatment is most effective when people are immediately discharged from an in-patient hospital unit, or when their addiction symptomology requires a low level of assisted withdrawal and when abstinence is a goal of treatment. In addition residential treatment is most valuable where there is polydrug misuse, co-occurrence of substance misuse and mental illness or complex social and relationship issues.
