Low-threshold services for drug users - outreach programs and contact centers. Analysis of the research potential of networks
Abstract
Analysis provide information on whether and how these institutions / providers prepared to enter into a unified system of science and research. What are the differences between services within the network and vice versa, what unites them in terms of connectivity options into larger future projects.
These are descriptions of how these institutions are set, how and through whom they communicate, how to dispose of science and what we can expect problems. The following text focused on two networks - network analysis readiness outreach programs and consulting services (K-centers) to enter into a unified system of science and research.
We used data from the Survey 2012, data were analyzed from websites and annual reports of individual network services and facilities. The result of the analysis of the research potential of networks of 6 total 9 specialized addiction services: outreach programs, and counseling services, short-term and medium-term inpatient treatment, residential treatment in therapeutic communities, substitution treatment and aftercare programs (aftercare).
Analyses followed a uniform structure and were gradually presented in the journal Adiktologie.