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Personality profiles of patients with alcohol and drug misuse in a Nigerian treatment facility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

T. A. Adamson ,
P. O. Onifade ,
O. I. Ibikunle  and
E. B. Somoye
T. A. Adamson
Affiliation:
Drug Addiction Treatment Education and Research unit (DATER), Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Abeokuta
P. O. Onifade
Affiliation:
DATER, Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Abeokuta, Nigeria, email oniffpo@yahoo.com
O. I. Ibikunle
Affiliation:
DATER
E. B. Somoye
Affiliation:
DATER
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Drug dependence treatment in Nigeria is at an early stage of development. The first ‘stand alone’ drug dependence treatment in-patient unit in Nigeria, the Drug Addiction Treatment Education and Research (DATER) unit, Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria, was established in 1983. Prior to this, patients with drug dependence received care along with other patients in psychiatric wards and traditional healing homes (United Nations International Drug Control Programme, 1998). Currently, there is no national body in Nigeria actively involved in regulating or facilitating good practice in drug dependence treatment.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 95 - 97
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