It is believed that the expansion of access to treatment will help the marginalized people, both recovering from addiction and to participate in the development of skills, resources and zeal to be closer to the life of the community.
There are many roads to recovery from addiction. Some addicts quit on their own, others use religious activities or self-help groups. Others require a treatment described in one of four general methods. The treatment may alsobehavioral approaches, medications, or in many cases both.
Outpatient drug free programs offer individual, group and family counseling. Patients are served, in general, cocaine and / or alcohol. The programs are based on a variety of styles of counseling. Use the appropriate drugs in combination with behavioral therapies to maximize therapeutic effect. This drug-based therapies include outpatient psychiatric and detoxification.
Opioid agonistTreatment programs for people addicted to heroin. They provide advice and both methadone or levo-alpha-acetyl methadol (LAAM), two drugs that block the withdrawal, craving and euphoric effects of heroin.
Hospital rehabilitation programs are designed for people addicted to alcohol or drugs. You can have several days a week and often the techniques of counseling, which based on its own utilities. Medical and psychiatric screening may be made available. Discharged patients are usually referred towhile outpatient programs and self-help groups.
Therapeutic communities are long-term inpatient treatment for people who are unable to adapt to drug use by other treatments. Period of six months or more, offer a structured program that uses behavior modification and positions of increasing responsibility, to rehabilitate the inhabitants.
Drug addiction is an effective treatment as a treatment for other chronic diseases. For example, arecent study showed a reduction of alcohol and drugs (52% and 69%, respectively), one year after treatment. Another study showed a 64% reduction in arrests one years after treatment. drug treatment also prevented the spread of HIV. Patients enrolled in methadone, five times less likely to contract HIV when injecting drugs, people not in treatment.
