Enhancing Integrated Treatment Programs for Severe Concurrent Substance Use and Mental Disorders: Insights on Overdose from the ROAR CANADA Project: Ameliorer les programmes de traitement integre pour les troubles mentaux et les troubles lies a l'usage de substances psychoactives graves et concomitants : apercu de la problematique des surdoses dans le cadre du projet ROAR CANADA.

ABSTRACT: ObjectiveThis paper summarizes methods and initial overdose-related results from the Reducing Overdose and Relapse: Concurrent Attention to Neuropsychiatric Ailments and Drug Addiction (ROAR CANADA) project. ROAR CANADA is a longitudinal observational study of individuals with severe concurrent substance use and mental disorders (also called dual disorders or dual diagnosis). The study sampled patients treated at two tertiary treatment centres in British Columbia, Red Fish Healing Centre and Heartwood Centre, along with a concurrent treatment unit at St. Joseph's in Ontario. These facilities have implemented evidence-based integrated treatment programs. Our first analysis explores selected baseline characteristics as potential risk factors for drug overdose in this population.MethodSociode

SUBMITTER: Schutz CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11795578 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature