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  • Title: Rehabilitation and follow-up issues in drug abusers managed at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Abeokuta, Nigeria.
    Author: Adelekan ML, Adeniran RA.
    Journal: West Afr J Med; 1991; 10(1):354-60. PubMed ID: 1648954.
    Abstract:
    The authors report on sixty two (62) patients treated at the drug abuse unit of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria over a 17-month period (June 1985-October 1986). Drugs mainly abused were marijuana (53.5%, alcohol (28.2%) and hard drugs (mainly heroin and cocaine) which accounted for 14.3%. All the patients went through a programme of assessment, detoxification, individual counselling, group psychotherapy and rehabilitation. Their length of stay in the hospital was (mean +/- SD) 64 + 44 days. Factors that militated against successful rehabilitation were the severity of the patients' illness at presentation, unemployment coupled with poor educational status and distance from the hospital of patient's normal abode. Sixty seven percent had defaulted 6 months after discharge from the hospital. Non-defaulters at 2 months performed well on some parameters assessed. Possible ways of ensuring proper rehabilitation and follow-up of this group of patients are discussed.
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