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The Minnesota treatment service, which lasts 28 days, has been operating in Lithuania since 1992, but so far inpatient and outpatient services are paid.
The Seimas Addiction Prevention Commission had drawn the attention of the Ministry of Health to the fact that people suffering from mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances, addiction or withdrawal syndrome once per calendar year.
Research indicates that the 14-day period is too short for addictions, as for other chronic diseases, it is a fairly long process and involves several episodes of treatment.
Commission in 2018 May 16 Appealed to the Government to increase the period of incapacity for work.
An amendment to the Social Security Illness and Maternity Law is currently being adopted, which provides the possibility for insured persons to receive voluntary treatment for pathological craving for gambling, addiction syndrome that uses psychoactive substances, state health insurance in institutions health care providers who provide inpatient addiction treatment services. receive 28 calendar days once a calendar year from the Fund.
According to data provided by the Seimas Addiction Prevention Commission, the Minnesota treatment service is currently provided at three branches of the Republican Center for Addictions in Lithuania: Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda. There are 26 beds in Vilnius, 12 beds in Kaunas, 16 beds in Klaipėda, a total of 54 beds. Last year there were 48 beds (they increased from 10 to 16 in Klaipeda). A total of 584 people were treated, of which 35%. woman. 72 percent successfully complete the 28-day course. of those who started this service in Vilnius and about 85 percent. In Kaunas and Klaipeda.
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