Halfway house for adiction patients: reality or utopia?
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halfway house, substance related disorder, treatmentAbstract
Addicted individuals to alcohol and drugs with stories of abandonment, incarceration, and lack of social support for life in sobriety are particularly vulnerable to relapse when they don’t find the care provision of long-term based on the community reinforcement and support sobriety. In this context, the Halfway House aims to promote aftercare service to addicts who need not follow institutionalized, but who would benefit from a structure with greater support treatment. Residents often develop strong social and psychological ties that have been referred as “alternative families”, evoking the anthropological concept of fictive kinship. The both results, quantitative and qualitative, suggest that this model has several positive outcomes since reduced treatment costs in long-term, higher maintenance in recovery to greater individuation and acquisition of values previously lost at active addiction stage. Thus, this model shows an important therapeutic resource to be added in the construction of the existing network equipment for the treatment of alcohol and other drugs.
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