{"id":44,"date":"2009-11-19T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog2\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-11-19T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:08:00","slug":"national-substance-abuse-conference-discusses-the-role-of-addiction-treatment-systems-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/national-substance-abuse-conference-discusses-the-role-of-addiction-treatment-systems-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"National Substance Abuse Conference Discusses The Role of Addiction Treatment Systems in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Issues of Substance 2009<\/span>, over 13 sessions, The CCSA will also examine the role of treatment systems from a variety of perspectives, including Canada\u2019s National Treatment Strategy (NTS) program.   <\/p>\n<p>It is estimated, according to the CCSA, that only one in 10 persons requiring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sobriety.ca\/\">addiction treatment<\/a> services actually receives it through the current health care system.   <\/p>\n<p>The NTS provides a framework for a national program of treatment and care throughout the country.  It is the first multi-jurisdictional strategy that aims to identify the steps required to create an integrated addiction treatment system for the country.   <\/p>\n<p>The NTS has imagined a five-tier model wherein a continuum of services is integrated from the community level through to specialized services for severe and complex cases.   <\/p>\n<p>It is a system where <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u201cevery door is the right door\u201d<\/span>, thus no matter how or where the individual enters the system, all paths lead to the level of care required by that individual.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus has been to find the most efficient and effective ways to enable multi-agency, culturally appropriate service delivery that responds to the unique needs of each individual, \u201c said Jim Cincotta, Co- Chair of the National Treatment Strategy Working Group in a statement. &#8220;The NTS has provided a blueprint to develop system-level strategies with various jurisdictions across Canada.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p>The CCSA with the National Treatment System has effectively created a framework for a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">national<\/span> addiction treatment system. This framework is person-centric, incorporating the continuum-of-care treatment model, and focuses on integrating treatment, social services, housing, and educational systems.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccsa.ca\/ENG\/NEWSANDEVENTS\/NEWSRELEASES\/2009\/Pages\/default.aspx\">The CCSA<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Issues of Substance 2009, over 13 sessions, The CCSA will also examine the role of treatment systems from a variety of perspectives, including Canada\u2019s National Treatment Strategy (NTS) program. It is estimated, according to the CCSA, that only one in 10 persons requiring addiction treatment services actually receives it through the current health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,17,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-addiction","category-drug-addiction","category-news","category-substance-abuse","category-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}