It was created to attract and integrate addicted women, especially of younger age, to a treatment programme against drug addiction.

In Asia, for instance, opiate addiction accounts for 67 per cent of the demand for drug abuse treatment.

Treatment for illicit drug users is varied, ranging from methadone maintenance (or long term detoxification), detoxification, therapeutic communities, drug free counselling and Ayurvedic medicine to acupuncture.

The participation of the family in a programme against addiction positively influences the treatment's results.

In Lebanon, the number of people seeking treatment for drug dependence nearly doubled between 2001 and 2003.

Other examples are documented failure in short term detoxification and drug free treatment options and failure to comply with abstinence requirements (d) Administrative and control criteria.

Treatment Programme ITHACA of the Treatment Centre for Addicted People.

The importance of training to successful drug enforcement could not be overemphasized.

You should go to a clinic, and get some treatment.

In 2000, the province opened a new Provincial Addictions Treatment Facility and integrated all regional programs and services.

The provincial addictions service now provides assessment, counselling, in patient and out patient detoxification, early intervention programs, rehabilitation, aftercare, public education, family support, and adolescent programs, as well as in patient and out patient gambling addictions programs.

That may be achieved in a wide variety of ways, including the provision of pamphlets on how to cope with detoxification in private, drug free counselling, and a range of treatment regimes, followed in some cases by rehabilitation programmes.

Scaling up HIV treatment

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C) Treatment for Drug Addicted women

(a) Treatment home for young drug users.

In addition to drug treatment, drug abusing inmates require specific pre release psychological and vocational programmes.

Services are also provided to users who do not wish to take part in a detoxification process, aiming to deal, to the extent possible, with health problems of the individual addicts and the society in general on the one hand and criminality on the other.

UNDCP was also engaged in demand reduction activities aimed at improving and strengthening the research and treatment capacity of the Yangon Drug Treatment and Research Unit, so that it could become the resource centre for treatment of drug abusers and the focal point for regional cooperation among drug treatment institutions in the country.

Good health care for people with HIV or AIDS treatment can only be given at government designated HIV treatment centres, in order to guarantee quality.

Noting the gaps that exist in many communities in the provision of substance abuse treatment, health care and social services for drug users living with HIV AIDS and other blood borne diseases,

Civil commitment was found quot useful for bringing addicts into treatment, but it is not treatment and cannot take the place of treatment quot .

A halfway house is also being planned for this client group.

If treatment adherence is poor, resistant HIV strains can emerge and lead to treatment failure.

The Government had set up rehabilitation and treatment centres for drug addicts.

Ensure women's access to medical care and HIV testing and treatment through the provision of mobile health centres, reduced or waived fees and affordable ARV, childcare at health care centres, among others.

Feminized poverty also poses a barrier to treatment given the high cost of antiretrovirals (ARV).

Centres for family support Co operation of the Centre for the Treatment of Addicted People with the families of the people under treatment.

A higher proportion of addicts had remained in treatment under that trial than was the case for many other forms of treatment.

In each of the health regions, services such as out patient detox and out patient rehabilitation, family counselling, smoking cessation and student assistance programs and other youth services are offered.

18. Specific programmes may include drug detoxification or maintenance programmes, counselling, group therapy and occupational therapy.

When treatment includes goals other than and in addition to complete abstinence, the treatment encapsulates aspects of tertiary prevention, reducing morbidity and mortality rates among illicit drug abusers the exclusion of such objectives from secondary prevention reduces cost efficiency and, in effect, contradicts the principles underlying the health and medical systems of many States.

19. Several Governments have reported treatment consisting mainly of detoxification care in emergency or mental health departments of hospitals.

Adherence, treatment success and antiretroviral drug resistance

In addition to medicated detoxification, traditional medicine models and acupuncture treatment is available in some countries.

quot The role of clonidine for the treatment of opioid addiction is limited to the first several weeks of withdrawal.

Initial drug offenders were committed to a drug rehabilitation centre for treatment and repeated offenders were subject to a penal like regime.

UNDCP supported a drug abuse assessment study that had established the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research and Treatment Center (AMATEM) as the national focal point for activities involving the treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers.

In June 2002, negotiations were finalized to reduce the prices of first line antiretroviral therapy, which is most commonly used for persons living with HIV.

Thematic debate on drug abuse prevention, treatment and rehabilitation

G) Sexually Transmitted Diseases AIDS. Treatment of infectious diseases in drug addicted people.

Encourages Member States to ensure that substance abuse treatment is accessible and affordable to drug users living with HIV AIDS and other blood borne diseases, and to work to eliminate barriers to access for drug users in need of HIV AIDS care and support

Percentage of HIV AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral medication

This is crucial for facilitating children's access to antiretroviral therapy and treatment of opportunistic infections.

Fully aware that the failure to deliver antiretroviral treatment for HIV AIDS to the millions of people who need it is a global health emergency,