Treatment
Drug addiction treatment approaches
There are different approaches of how to treat people addicted with drugs. Relapse Prevention, a cognitive-behavioral therapy, was developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for cocaine addicts. Cognitive-behavioral strategies are based…
Differential treatment of dependences
TREATMENTS FOR HEROIN ADDICTION
Avariety of effective treatments are available for heroin addiction. Treatment tends to be more effective when heroin abuse is identified early. The treatments that follow vary depending on the…
Detoxification
Detoxification (detox) is a process in which the body is allowed to free itself or reduce the level of a substance. Chronic (longterm) use of a drug can result in physical dependence, and acute stopping the…
Methadone Maintenance Treatment
Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) or Methadone Replacement Therapy (MRT) can help injection drug users (IDUs) reduce or stop injecting and return to productive lives. However, its use is still sometimes publicly controversial and many factors can…
Rapid Detox
There have been substantial advances when it comes to understanding the biochemical and genetic basis for substance abuse and addiction over the past ten years. In spite of this knowledge very little information is disseminated…
