Project outreach: an experimental support system intervention program.
A drug use intervention outreach project was developed which relied upon the active participation of health, welfare, employment, rehabilitation, social educational, social-legal control, and national security agencies. A variety of explicit and implicit goals, techniques, and data collection techniques were mutually agreed upon by the agencies in order to confidentially register untreated drug users, alcoholics, and medicinal misusers; to integrate them into treatment; to train staffs of participating agencies; to assess the adaptive functioning of children living with drug-using alcoholic parents and/or siblings; to empirically document substance misuse in one area of Jerusalem, and to develop a model for outreach. Sixty-seven drug users were "discovered", 12 were already in treatment. A number of the project's goals were achieved; others were not. The project is being continued for a second year.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires