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Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems: 2018, 20, N4 (pages: 5 - 11)

Multidisciplinary Settings in the Treatment of Drug-Addiction: An Experimental Evaluation

Cicatelli P., Borriello M.T., De Vivo C., D'Oriano V., Fuscone A., Moccia E., and Siconolfi M.

Summary: The present paper provides a detailed description of a protocol based on the application of multidisciplinary settings; its primary aim is to discuss the issue of what kinds of treatment should be given to drug-addicted patients already receiving pharmacological therapy. The proposed model includes settings that provide patients with coordinated assistance from a staff of operators with different professional profiles. In these settings the therapeutic criteria are implemented by applying one or more of the following practices: ● Contemporary presence of professionals with different skills at times when medications are being administered; each professional interacts with patients on the basis of his/her own specific competence; ● Psychological monitoring of patients currently receiving pharmacological therapy; ● Activation of group settings chaired by staff members belonging to the medical and/or psychological areas. In the following, the context hosting this experimentation is presented, and some details regarding the method are discussed. Lastly, results are reported on the treatment of 85 subjects chosen from a sample of 189 patients of the Ser.T. D.S.B.30 A.S.L. Na1 in the time interval under consideration.