Effective continuing-care planning: an addiction counselor's view.

From: Addiction Professional | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Addiction professionals understand that continuing care is an essential piece of the addiction treatment continuum. Continuing-care plans with varying levels of accountability exist throughout the United States. For the addiction treatment professional, however, the difficulty often comes when it is time to put the next "right step" in place for a patient moving to the next level of care.

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Traditional 30-day inpatient treatment and corresponding outpatient treatment have become highly refined over the years. Today there are hundreds of excellent ...

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