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Region needs evidence-based policies for drug treatment

Mar 12, 2009 News

The need for the development of evidence-based policies on drug treatment and care in the Caribbean Region was one of the main issues raised at the recent regional training workshop on Standards of Care for Treatment and Rehabilitation Facilities for Substance Abusers.
Organised jointly by the Caricom Secretariat and the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), the two-day meeting which took place in Montego Bay, Jamaica, agreed that research and information on drug treatment and care must form the basis for clear and sustainable regional policies, which should transcend governments.
Head of the Drug Demand and Reduction at CICAD, Dr Anna Chisman, expressed concerns that priority attention was not paid to the treatment of drug and alcoholic dependence in the region.
In advocating for quality care and access to quality care in drug treatment, Dr Chisman said that such care and treatment should be done in a similar manner as the approach to treating other lifestyle related diseases such as diabetes.
While conceding that resource constraint was one of the major challenges confronting practitioners in drug care and treatment, Dr. Chisman asserted that proper standards must be established in order to attract public and private sector funding.
She stressed, further, the need for effective monitoring and evaluations systems to ensure compliance to established standards.
The meeting brought together a wide cross section of international, regional and national practitioners in drug treatment and care, policy makers on drug related services, and community-based drug treatment service providers.
Members of the Technical Advisory Body for the CARICOM Regional Drug Demand Reduction Strategy endorsed by the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) in 2001 also participated in the workshop.

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