Abstract
ABSTRACT Substance use disorders (SUDs) affect over 35 million individuals worldwide and are associated with significant harms. Residential treatment is an essential component of Canada’s approach to combating SUDs, offering highly intensive and specialized acute services. Historically, residential treatment facilities have quantified the success of their program(s) solely based on program completion. However, there has been a recent movement toward empirically evaluating programs using standardized measures of distress. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the inpatient residential program for SUDs at Edgewood Treatment Centre is effective in providing substantive improvement of a range of addiction and mental health symptoms. The current study assessed both addiction related and psychological outcomes. Specifically, we examined whether patients improved on various measures of functional impairment, addiction-related symptoms, traumatic stress, and psychological distress, following completion of the 7-week inpatient addiction program. Findings suggested that there were significant improvements in emotion regulation, and decreases in substance dependence, substance cravings, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and traumatic stress between admission and discharge.
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