Themes
A. Effectiveness: evidence based and best practice
- Cost-benefit analyses
- Evidence-based or best practice
- Effectiveness duration treatment
- Prediction for effective treatment, special focus on patient expectations
- The role of medication in treatments
- Social integration
B. Organisation and innovation
- Education employees
- Therapeutic Communities as a component of a network of provisions for drug addicts
(continuity of treatment; self-help groups; rehab techniques) - Team composition: Which professional should be involved
(e.g., nurses, psychiatrists, recovering addicts, social workers, etc...) - Operational components: what makes the ultimate combination
- Ethnicity policy; how do you ensure that Therapeutic Communities
are effective for people with different (multicultural) backgrounds,
- Therapeutic Communities in prison
- Prisoners in Therapeutic Communities
- How to support the implementation of the EU Drugs Strategy
- Drug courts
- Juvenile delinquency
D. Population mobility and New Challenges in treatment and Prevention
- Prevention for children from addicted parents
- Addicted children, from 12 to 18 years
- Young people: inpatient vs. outpatient
- Mentally handicapped and disabled people with addiction problems
- Therapeutic Communities for dual-diagnosed patients
- Homeless people
E. The growth and role of spirituality in addiction treatments
- Twelve Step Treatment (Minnesota Model)
- Place of religion, spirituality and faith perception
- Treatment on an anthropological basis
