Psychiatric department and treatment centres to provide temporary addiction care

The psychiatric department and approved treatment centres will provide a temporary substance-use and withdrawal treatment service, Health Minister Eyðdis Hartmann Niclasen told KVF.

Niclasen has asked the Hospital Service’s management to set out how the service could operate temporarily, until a new working group makes its recommendations next year.

The hospital management recommends reserving a place in the psychiatric ward for the service and working with approved treatment centres. The psychiatric department is expected to move to the H building at the National Hospital later this month.