Audit of Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities in ... - SA HealthInfo

Figure 16. Proportion of treatment facilities providing family services (%).9594 9490888580817570Marital therapy Family therapy Family education Family assessmentOverall3.6.5. Provision of health and medical servicesWith regard to ancillary medical services, a large proportion of facilities conduct a fullmedical history of clients (81.3%) (Figure 17). A smaller proportion conduct physicalexaminations of clients (62.5%); provide clients with psychiatric medication (50.0%);provide clients with substitution medications such as methadone, subutex and antabuse(37.5%); or offer detoxification services (56.3%).Regarding medical harm-reduction interventions, a quarter of facilities routinely testclients for hepatitis and other infectious diseases or conduct harm-reduction interventionsamong injection drug users (IDU) (Figure 17). Only 37.5% of facilities provide HIV riskreduction interventions (such as testing and counselling) onsite.47