The Effects of ADHD on the Process and Outcome of Drug Treatment in Therapeutic Communities in the Czech Republic - a Pilot Study

Abstract

The Pilot Study deals with impact of ADHD among drug users treated in Therapeutic communities in the Czech Republic regarding their ability to finish the whole treatment program. We investigated an impact of ADHD on personality from cognitive, behaviour and executive aspects and we analyzed the complication of treatment.

The study compared clients without a diagnosis of ADHD with a group of clients with an ADHD diagnosis.

Keywords

• dual diagnoses
• ADHD
• drug dependence
• treatment
• therapeutic community
• treatment complications