Family typology and deterioration related to opioids use, in a methadone treatment patients group

Abstract

In this article the familiar functioning of subjects addict to opioids included in a maintenance programme with methadone will be analized, trying to identify whether belonging to one type of family (family typology) or another according to Olson’s Familiar Functioning Model, is related to the level of deterioration or severity of addiction of the different areas associated to consumption . The sample is composed by 69 subjects (N=69) users of the Servicio de Atención a las Drogodependencias (SAD) in Centro de Servicios Sociales Comunitarios del Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville). In order to evaluate the functioning and the family typology of these subjects the Escala de Cohesión y Adaptación Familiar –CAF-1 , Spanish version of FACES III was used2 . In order to evaluate the level of deterioration, the Spanish version3 of the 5th edition of the personal, clinical semistructured interview Addiction Severity Index-ASI4 was applied. The results indicate that the subjects included in balanced families present more addiction severity in two dimensions of the ASI: Alcohol and Employment/ Support and are, moreover, the ones that take greater doses of methadone.