OBJECTIVE: The present study compares the sociodemografic and clinical profile of patients that remain or not in treatment in a specialized center for alcohol and drugs (CAPSad). METHOD: Three hundred and sixteen medical records of a specialized center in Campo Grande (MS) were evaluated. RESULTS: Thus we observed that the group of patients that do not remain in the treatment are commonly men (p = 0,072), elderly (p = 0,008), with father and mother record (p = 0,068), alcoholic (p = 0,005) and with more time of addiction (p = 0,005). CONCLUSION: There is a need to reformulate the approaches applied today in CAPSad, especially among patients with predictors of treatment dropout.
CAPSad; alcohol; drugs; treatment dropout
