The Situation of New Addictors Entering The National Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation of Addicts Information System in Thailand during 2018 – 2022

Abstract

This study is a retrospective cohort study with the purpose of reviewing and studying the situation of new addicts who entered the national drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation data system during the fiscal year 2018 – 2022 in three areas: 1) data on all new drug users in the country from 2018 to 2022; 3) Retention rate was used to analyze the data using descriptive statistics.
The results of the study showed that between 2018 and 2022, there were a total of 222,679 new addicts, of which 140,445 new addicts were fully treated, accounting for 63.07 percent. The results of the study also found that the largest number of people receiving treatment were still there. Health Zones 7 – 10 which are in the Northeast region. According to the review of the retention rate, the retention rate of addicts after treatment tends to decrease, with the highest follow-up rate of addicts in fiscal year 2018 accounting for 96.57 percent, followed by fiscal year 2021 accounting for 68.91 percent, fiscal year 2022 accounting for 67.56 percent, fiscal year 2020 accounting for 67.55 percent, and fiscal year 2019 accounting for 38.77 percent.
Results of this study Therefore, the health team personnel who are responsible for caring for drug abusers are aware of and focus on encouraging and monitoring drug abusers to complete the program and receive better follow-up after treatment, which will lead to a reduction in the rate of relapse.