More addicts stay on the road to recovery say health chiefs
A PROGRAMME to help alcoholics and drug users free themselves from addiction has improved its retention rates.
The Lothians and Edinburgh Abstinence Programme (LEAP) treated 100 people in its first year, with management saying as the course went on it was able to keep around 80 per cent of those who began it.
The project's clinical lead, Dr David McCartney, said: "A follow-up survey of the first 59 clients completing treatment found that the majority were maintaining their abstinent recoveries with an average recovery time of more than six months for the sample."
The three-month initiative sees people put through mental and physical health assessments and training and then given access to follow-up care for two years.
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