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Substance Abuse Prevention& Treatment Centre, Caura Hospital

Caura Royal Road | El Dorado | | Trinidad and Tobago

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Contact Data

Phone

868-662-2211

Web

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Business hours

8.00 am-4.00 pm.Monday to Friday Tuesday and Thursday 8.30-12.00, clinic days

Institution

Type of organisation
Governamental/Public-national
Institutional presentation
The focus is on treatment of clients.Treatment is for the client and their families. Inpatient and outpatient programmes both run for 6 weeks. The team is multidisciplinary, psychologist,psychiatrist,registered nurses,case workers,social workers and mental health officers.
Direct beneficiaries
  • Drug users
  • Problematic drug users
  • Fromer drug users
  • Motivational groups (drug users and not drug users)
  • Dually diagnosed (comorbid)
  • HIV/AIDS
Target population activities
  • Adults
Objective of the centre/ services
National coverage
National coverage

Intervention framework

Intervention types
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Social integration
  • Risk reduction
Intervention framework for Prevention
  • Public events
  • Family
Intervention framework for Treatment
  • Internment/in-patient
  • Outpatient/diurnal/outpatients clinic
  • Treatment groups (relapse prevention)
  • Other (Pre treatment)
  • Support groups
  • Dual diagnosis treatment
Intervention framework for Social integration
  • Housing support
Intervention framework for Risk reduction
  • Public health intervention (provision of HIV screening or basic health intervention eg for diabetics)
  • Interventions on prevention and health education
  • Substance testing
Activities
  • Support
  • Promotion
  • Health education
  • Training
  • Information
  • Family & socio-educational intervention
  • Personal & socio-educational intervention
  • Guidance
  • Distribution of material
  • Awareness
  • Early Intervention/detoxification
  • High threshold outpatient treatment
  • Abstinent based residential treatment
  • Self help
  • After-care, social reintegration, halfway houses
Description of the main activities

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