Drug care centralized in Roeselare
In addition to the outpatient supervision, there are also weekly free walk-in moments for medical consultations. And this is also the operating base for Kompas aan Huis, which visits minors, and also for Dodo, which is unique in the province. Hannelore Sanders, Ambulante drug assistance Kompas: “That means going to pregnant women or young families where the parents use drugs and really want to be a good parent. As a parent it is not so obvious to come out with that. there is also a great fear that, for example, you are no longer allowed to take care of your child. want to fund.”
A team of fourteen people, including a doctor and psychiatrist, offers help to about 400 people from Central West Flanders every year, and they are very diverse. “On the one hand, there are those people who fit into that typical picture of someone with an addiction: wrong friends, wrong upbringing. But you also have the hard-working self-employed who then make sloppy weekends.”
Kompas also has branches in Kortrijk, Menen, Waregem, Ypres and Torhout. Good for about 2000 files per year. But the need is actually much greater, for example, in Roeselare there is a waiting list of more than six months.