Quality standard
Quality statement 7: Recovery and reintegration
Quality statement 7: Recovery and reintegration
Quality statement
People in drug treatment are offered support to access services that promote recovery and reintegration including housing, education, employment, personal finance, healthcare and mutual aid.
Rationale
People with drug use disorders have a better chance of recovery and reintegration, and maintaining recovery in the longer term, if they are supported to access services that promote recovery.
Quality measure
The following measures can be used to assess the quality of care or service provision specified in the statement. They are examples of how the statement can be measured, and can be adapted and used flexibly.
Process
Proportion of people in drug treatment who receive support to access services that promote recovery and reintegration.
Numerator – the number of people in the denominator receiving support to access services that promote recovery and reintegration.
Denominator – the number of people in drug treatment.
Data source: The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System collects data on all clients receiving specialist treatment for their problematic use of drugs. Data on a range of recovery support interventions are collected.
What the quality statement means for different audiences
Service providers ensure systems are in place for people in drug treatment to be offered support to access services that promote recovery and reintegration, including housing, education, employment, personal finance, healthcare and mutual aid.
Healthcare professionals ensure people in drug treatment are offered support to access services that promote recovery and reintegration, including housing, education, employment, personal finance, healthcare and mutual aid.
Commissioners ensure they commission services that offer people in drug treatment support to access services that promote recovery and reintegration, including housing, education, employment, personal finance, healthcare and mutual aid.
People in drug treatment are offered support to help them recover and integrate back into the community, including getting help from housing, education, employment, personal finance and healthcare services and mutual aid.
Source guidance
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Drug misuse in over 16s: psychosocial interventions. NICE guideline CG51 (2007), recommendations 1.3.2.1 and 1.3.2.2
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Drug misuse in over 16s: opioid detoxification. NICE guideline CG52 (2007), recommendation 1.1.1.6
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Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management. Department of Health and Social Care (2017), section 2.2.6 and chapter 3
Definitions of terms used in this quality statement
Support for housing, education, employment and healthcare
Definitions of support for housing, education, employment and healthcare should be taken from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System dataset.
Mutual aid
Mutual aid services include SMART (self-management and recovery training) recovery and those based on 12-step principles, for example Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous. [Expert opinion]
NICE's guideline on drug misuse in over 16s: psychosocial interventions states examples of support that may be considered to assist people with drug use disorders to make initial contact with a self-help group. These include making appointments, arranging transport, accompanying people to their first session and dealing with any concerns. Support also includes the provision of information and advice.
Equality and diversity considerations
People in drug treatment should receive support to access services that promote recovery, tailored to their individual needs.