Efficacy of Drug Rehab Centers in Nicaragua, Peru, and the Czech Republic

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Efficacy of Drug Rehab Centers in Nicaragua, Peru, and the Czech Republic

Original language description

This article deals with published results of the previous studies on the traditional indigenous medicine application in the treatment of drug addiction. We conducted 9 months long field work in the Takiwasi Centre for the Rehabilitation of Drug addicts and for Research on Traditional Medicines, Tarapoto, Peru, spanning between 2007 and 2009. The statistical analysis of reports in the local archive demonstrated that 27% of inpatients in the years 1999-2009 (N=341) were classified at the end of nine-monthlong rehabilitation process as cured by the therapists. 43% of them left the center voluntarily before nine months prescribed by the therapeutic team stating that they have also recovered from addiction. There has also been another data collected sinceSeptember 2013, while measuring the retention of current inpatients in Takiwasi, as well as in four other therapeutic communities: Centro de Especialidades en Adicciones (Managua, Nicaragua), Sejrek, Renarkon, and Center for Social Interv

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Adiktologie

ISSN

1213-3841

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

428-439

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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