Reasons for clients no longer receiving treatment from an AOD treatment service include expected cessations (for example, treatment program completed), unplanned cessations (for example, the client ceased to participate in the treatment program without notice) and administrative cessation (for example, client transferred to another service provider) (see Key terminology and glossary).
In 2019–20,
- treatment episodes for client’s own alcohol or drug use:
- around 3 in 5 (59%) treatment episodes ended as expected (planned) completions
- around 1 in 5 (21%) of treatment episodes ended due to an unplanned completion
- 1 in 14 (7%) treatment episodes were referred to another service or changed treatment mode, and the remaining 13% of treatment episodes ended for other reasons.
- This pattern differed slightly for clients who received support for someone else’s alcohol or drug use; treatment episodes that ended due to unplanned completion were lower (14%) than episodes for a client’s own alcohol or drug use (Figure COMPLETION1).