NCJ Number
162349
Date Published
1995
Length
100 pages
Annotation
This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) describes detoxification care in a number of settings and provides clinical guidelines for detoxification from specific classes of drugs, such as sedative-hypnotics, stimulants, and opiates.
Abstract
Detoxification needs of special populations are addressed, including incarcerated persons, women, adolescents, elderly persons, patients who are HIV positive, and persons with psychiatric comorbidity. The TIP also includes information helpful to planners and policymakers about detoxification costs, quality improvement, outcome criteria, health care reform, and linking detoxification to the larger continuum of care in the substance abuse treatment system. Specific ways of improving the quality and outcome of detoxification services are delineated. In addition, legal and ethical issues of concern to detoxification programs are examined. Appendixes contain supplemental information on detoxification programs. 167 references and 11 exhibits