Establish a standardized treatment program for addiction departments in mental health hospitals.

The Addiction Treatment Department of the General Secretariat for Mental Health announced the completion of the development of a unified treatment program that will be applied in all addiction departments in its hospitals.

This is based on the interest of the General Secretariat of Mental Health in the development of addiction treatment services provided in its affiliated hospitals.

And Dr. Raghida Al-Jameel, Director of the Addiction Treatment Department, explained that the program goes by the name of “recovery” and was prepared in accordance with evidence-proven and internationally approved scientific programs, and the program has already been implemented in the internal departments of all Amana hospitals.

Al-Jameel emphasized that, given the current conditions that the country is going through and following the procedures to prevent the new Corona virus and avoid meetings, it was decided to implement the program with patients recovering from addiction and reluctant to follow the program of day care, using various technologies through the Internet, where a channel was created Especially on YouTube, to present simple educational conferences for the recovered, and group therapy sessions are carried out using various applications through the Internet.