RESUMO
The Substance Use Disorder (SUD) alters the patient's social, family and working performance significantly, together with mental and physical health. The Dispositivo Pavlovsky (DP) is an outpatient and intensive treatment modality for users/ clients that do not require an inpatient facility but do need a more intensive approach than traditional/classic outpatient treatment. The DP has a battery of therapeutic proposals protocolized within a pre-established framework and adapted to the patient's needs. Given the intensity of treatment, it provides a better psychical support and promotes abstinence among the users/clients, who, because of their pathology, present common features of ambivalence towards suspending the consumption of the problematic substance. Overall, the therapeutic proposal is characterized by offering and promoting the use of tools and strategies for the daily life, such as intensive Group Therapy Setting, Individual Therapy, Psychiatric Consultation, Toxicology consultation, attendance to workshops, creating a participatory network, that provides a group setting support oriented towards psychoeducation, and accompaniment of the patience. The DP has interdisciplinary teams with diverse theoretical frameworks. These professionals keep a fluid communication, with formal exchange settings, intervening in the directionality of the treatment in general and delving deep in each particular case.