Residential treatment for drug use in Europe

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Today, in most European countries, residential treatment programmes form an important element of the range of treatment and rehabilitation options for drug users. The aim of this paper is to provide a Europe-wide overview of the history and availability of residential drug treatment within wider national drug treatment systems. To help with this, the paper describes the history and availability of residential treatment in Europe and develops a categorisation of the broad range of available models and treatment approaches applied in residential settings. Countries differ in the level of... residential treatment provision. Over two-thirds of the 2 500 reported facilities in Europe are concentrated in just six countries, each reporting over 100 facilities. A description is provided of the characteristics of residential treatment (inpatient) clients, as well as discussion of organisational and quality assurance issues relevant to residential treatment and how these matters are dealt with across Europe.