Chanchai Thongphanit
Thanyarak Khonkaen Hospital, Thailand
Title: Aftercare program in continuum of care
Biography
Biography: Chanchai Thongphanit
Abstract
Addiction is a chronic disease. It is often relapses that causes compulsive seeking and use drug. Beside that the effective treatment of addiction as a chronic disease is important address in continuity of care that involves monitoring the patient’s transition from outpatient services to inpatient services before they are discharged and also aftercare program.Thanyarak Khonkaen Hospital is a specialized drug treatment hospital of Department of Medical Services, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. It is a tertiary care unit in The National Health Security System for drug patients referred from a primary or secondary health care unit. There are 200 beds capacity. The aftercare program is done by multidisciplinary team which composes of Physician, Nurse, and Clinical psychologist. All clients who get admitted in aftercare program must stop drug use over 90 days. The follow up appointment were used. Those were 7 times within 6 month. Therefore, we have social workers for home visit. The result revealed that aftercare program maintains long-term recovery and sobriety. Most of the clients develop spiritual and life skill.