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8. LONGEST PERIOD OF VOLUNTARY ABSTINENCE

The largest number of clients (36) had a voluntary abstinence period of five or fewer days.
The four-week abstinence period had the second highest number of clients at 33. Only
18 clients had a voluntary abstinence period of five months and more and 10 clients had

never had a period of abstinence. Among the reasons cited for voluntary abstinence
were illness with accompanying prescription drug use, and educational and employment

opportunities. Figure 10 provides a breakdown of the abstinence periods for clients.

CSJP CASE MANAGEMENT RE-ASSESSMENT AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE FINDINGS
The Case Management process includes reassessment of the clients to check for any

changes in the domains’ risk for the client and to check the effectiveness of the case
management interventions. For adults, reassessment was scheduled for every nine months,
and for youths every six months. This process allowed the Case Manager and the clients

to see the improvements or setbacks, and to make the necessary adjustments to the case
plans.

A reassessment exercise was conducted in June 2019 with 1,130 beneficiaries, which
included some of the participants under consideration in this document. Among that

number 844 were previously assessed for substance misuse. The results indicated that for
the reassessed clients, 22.4 per cent (253) remained at medium risk for substance use.
A further 27.3 per cent (308) remained at low risk after reassessment. A total of 14.0 per

cent (158) moved from high to medium risk and another 11.2 per cent (126) moved from
medium to low risk (CSJP Reassessment Summary 2019).

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