The value of occupational therapy within an addictions environment

Jessica Robson and Mikaela Williams explain how the Ayrshire and Arran Improvement Foundation Skills ( AAIFS ) Programme has highlighted the importance of looking at an area of practice holistically and how making small , targeted change can have a big impact .

T he occupational therapy service within the South Ayrshire Treatment and Recovery Team ( START ) aims to support the delivery of the Medication

Assisted Treatment ( MAT ) Standards ( 2021 ).

Since 2014 , there has been a sharp increase in drug deaths in Scotland and in response to this the MAT standards were introduced by the Scottish Government in May 2021 , with the aim of reducing drugrelated harm and death through enabling