Good day everyone!
I've been looking at the influence of opioid-assisted treatment lately on
TCs and Collectives here in Norway.
After a national drug reform where treatment of addicts became a
specialized health service and opioid-assisted treatment expanded radically
there has been changes that seems to affect the whole discourse on recovery. I
understand that this is not anything new and that the same thing is happening
-almost cyclical- across Europe (and the US).
In Norway we now have 4,6 % of all treatment services that restrict against
opoid assisted treatment in their institutes. These are only three small
collectives. There are no TCs left with restrictions against the treatment form.
Phoenix Haga was the last one, even though it opened up for some beds to
patients on opioids. In this mail I've attached a table that I made, where
"ikke-substitusjon" means "no opioid assisted treatment".
I need some help mapping this out. Is this table showing a very radical
trend special for Norway or is this the same across Europe. And in such a grand
scale?
With only two TCs left in Norway and very few generic collectives to me it
seems something needs to be done. I would greatly appreciate anything that could
point me in a right direction regarding this matter, and regarding further
influencing the national guidelines on drug policy. We've managed to influence
them to such a degree that now an important guideline is that becoming clean
after treatment should be possible...
Have a nice day everyone, and thank you in advance.
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Sincerely hilsener Kenneth
Arctander