Alcohol community detoxification: How many times is enough?

摘要

This paper looks at the cohort of patients that need more than one alcohol detoxification in 12 months, it analyses the patients who needed this treatment and how their insight and understanding of their alcohol pattern changed through each experience of detoxing. The paper examines the community detoxifications carried out in a primary care based service in London and the cohort who detoxed over a period of 2 years from 2015-2017 by the primary care service. It examines the patients through case studies, which illustrate the journey each patient went through that enlightened and informed them.