Hi Melinda,

 

My name is Anita Harris and I am the Team Leader in Ashleigh House, women and child residential TC in Dublin. Coolmine Therapeutic Community has 2 residential TC’S , a male and female service. We offer detoxification as part of our service, there is threshold that an individual must reach before entering and these individuals enter the Welcome Programme for 6 weeks to allow them to complete detox and any withdrawals. It is a full structured programme that runs in parallel to the group programme of the main community. It based on the same site as the main TC community where they learn about their treatment and get exposure to the TC model of treatment. Abstinence remains the goal .

 

Detox is overseen by the nursing support service

 

Hope this helps

 

Regards

 

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From: Therapeutic Communities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Beckwith, Melinda
Sent: 02 March 2018 00:50
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [EFTC] research on unplanned withdrawal following TC admission

 

Thanks Eric,

Clare (Windana) mentioned this was one of the emergent issues being addressed by their new Welcome House so I'm going to catch up with her and pick her brains a bit.

 

Forgive my naivety all - I've just realised I've been assuming that detox/withdrawal at a separate service prior to entering a TC is a worldwide approach but this may not be the case.  Is it standard in other countries (outside of Australia) too?  Or are there a variety of approaches used to manage a person's transition into a TC?  This may well change my approach to the literature review.

 

I'm very thankful for this group's collective wisdom.

 

Kind regards,

Melinda

 

On 2 Mar 2018, at 8:25 AM, Eric Allan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Sorry Melinda ,

I don’t have any, this might be a broader one to put out to the EFTC or the journal.

 

It certainly used to be common practice here. In Victoria the proliferation of detox after the Pennington report changed all that

Regards

Eric

 

From: Therapeutic Communities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Beckwith, Melinda
Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2018 7:04 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [EFTC] research on unplanned withdrawal following TC admission

 

Dear TC world, 

I hope you can nudge me in the right direction.  I've been contracted to run an evaluation of an initiative to address residual or unplanned withdrawal in some TCs here in Australia.  Despite usual protocol that anyone physically dependent on a substance go through a withdrawal process prior to admission, anecdotally, residents and staff report some people enter these TCs either with residual withdrawal symptoms or without the full extent of their substance use and withdrawal needs being shared and/or addressed and thus they go into withdrawal unexpectedly after admission to the TC.

 

I have found a little research around management of this issue, but I'm searching for any research reports or papers that might indicate rates at which residual or unplanned withdrawal occurs within TCs and I haven't had much luck.  I would be very grateful for any leads.

 

Any research recently or currently being conducted around management of this phenomenon would also be very welcome, particularly if it can give an indication of the proportion of new admissions experiencing residual or unplanned withdrawal.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Melinda Beckwith

B. HlthSc (Hons), M.Psych (Clin)

PhD Candidate

Turning Point

Eastern Health Clinical School, MONASH University

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