Causes, Treatment & Prevention Of Drug Abuse Training Video
National Institute of Drug Addiction. Drug Abuse: Meeting the Challenge. NTIS A17166VNB1, 1987. Causes, treatment and prevention of drug abuse are explored. Interviews with NIDA personnel and research scientists about ways the government is researching and combating drug abuse. Tape is somewhat clinical in nature. Producer: National Institutes of Health. Keywords: FedFlix; ntis.gov. Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment. More than three decades of scientific research have yielded 13 fundamental principles that characterize effective drug abuse treatment. These principles are detailed in NIDA’s Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide. 1. No single treatment is appropriate for all individuals. Matching treatment settings, interventions, and services to each patient’s problems and needs is critical. 2. Treatment needs to be readily available. Treatment applicants can be lost if treatment is not immediately available or readily accessible. 3. Effective treatment attends to multiple needs of the individual, not just his or her drug use. Treatment must address the individual’s drug use and ociated medical, psychological, social, vocational, and legal problems. 4. At different times during treatment, a patient may develop a need for medical services, family therapy, vocational rehabilitation, and social and legal services. 5. Remaining in treatment for an adequate period of time is critical for treatment effectiveness. The time depends on an individual’s needs. For most patients, the threshold of significant improvement is reached at about 3 months in treatment. Additional treatment can produce further progress. Programs should include strategies to prevent patients from leaving treatment prematurely. 6. Individual and/or group counseling and other behavioral therapies are critical components of effective treatment for addiction. In therapy, patients address motivation, build skills to resist drug use, replace drug-using activities with constructive and rewarding nondrug-using activities, and improve problem-solving abilities. Behavioral therapy also facilitates interpersonal relationships. 7. Medications are an important element of treatment for many patients, especially when combined with counseling and other behavioral therapies. Buprenorphine, methadone and levo-alpha-acetylmethodol (LAAM) help persons addicted to opiates stabilize their lives and reduce their drug use. Naltrexone is effective for some opiate addicts and some patients with co-occurring alcohol dependence. Nicotine patches or gum, or an oral medication, such as buproprion, can help persons addicted to nicotine. 8. Addicted or drug-abusing individuals with coexisting mental disorders should have both disorders treated in an integrated way. 9. Medical detoxification is only the first stage of addiction treatment and by itself does little to change long-term drug use. Medical detoxification manages the acute physical symptoms of withdrawal. For some individuals it is a precursor to effective drug addiction treatment. 10. Treatment does not need to be voluntary to be effective. Sanctions or enticements in the family, employment setting, or criminal justice system can significantly increase treatment entry, retention, and success. 11. Possible drug use during treatment must be monitored continuously. Monitoring a patient’s drug and alcohol use during treatment, such as through urinalysis, can help the patient withstand urges to use drugs. Such monitoring also can provide early evidence of drug use so that treatment can be adjusted. 12. Treatment programs should provide essment for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, and counseling to help patients modify or change behaviors that place them or others at risk of infection. Counseling can help patients avoid high-risk behavior and help people who are already infected manage their illness. 13. Recovery from drug addiction can be a long-term process and frequently requires multiple episodes of treatment. As with other chronic illnesses, relapses to drug use can occur during or after successful treatment episodes. Participation in self-help support programs during and following treatment often helps maintain abstinence. Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Duration : 0:26:38
Tags: abuse, addictions, addition, chemical, counseling, drug, drugs, meth, rehab, rehabilitation, substance, substances, use, withdrawal
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
You don’t think …
You don’t think that people do drugs because of how good they make them feel? That’s ing ignorant.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
I came across a …
I came across a comment you made 6 months ago on drug addiction. The opinion you subscribe to is not only narrow minded but it is fundamentally what is wrong with any sucsessful attempt at finding the answers needed to treat properly the disease of addiction
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
people do drugs …
people do drugs because they like them and like the way they make them feel. there, i solved the big mystery.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
I use nicotine …
I use nicotine replacement every time I quit smoking and it works every time!
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Just say no! lol..
Just say no! lol..
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
The theory is good, …
The theory is good, but the nicotine in cigarettes is a different molecule to that in the gum and patches: smoking changes the molecule to ‘freebase’ due to the addition of ammonia to tobacco, so the craving persists. People chew, absorb and still smoke – there’s the psychological factor, too.
Our cigarette packets now contain no tar or nicotine content, only pictures of diseased lungs, gangrenous feet and scary statistics using the excuse “EVERY cigarette is doing you damage”.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
You don’t think …
You don’t think nicotine replacement works? Do you understand how nicotine physically addicts a person?
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
From the side panel …
From the side panel:
“Nicotine patches or gum… can help persons addicted to nicotine.”
This was a marketing ploy to sell snake-oil to desperate addicts. Nicotine replacement has never been proven to work. Zyban (Wellbutrin) worked for me, but I could only get it for 90 days (it is approved for smoking cessation in Australia, not as an antidepressant).
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
My first impression …
My first impression, too. Schuster has a Ph.D in psychology, which in this case is OK – NIDA is a purely political instrument.
In the 1980s, the primary treatment for ‘drug abuse’ was the revolving-door one-size-fits-all 12-step program; at least this video shows attempts to change this monopoly with individual treatment and properly evaluated medicines.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
And if it is a …
And if it is a health issue, why is the director of the national institute on drug abuse not a medical doctor.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
So if it’s a public …
So if it’s a public health issue, why do they send people to jail instead of a hospital>
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
I will.
My comment …
I will.
My comment was based on the description, and a quick overview of the video.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
NikoKun, did you …
NikoKun, did you watch the entire video? There is no obligation to watch the entire video. I just think it would help with your comments if you watched the entire video.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Not saying we …
Not saying we shouldn’t send people with serious drug problems, to treatment… But some of the methods described here, remind me of the brainwashing and molding techniques that a cult uses on it’s members.
But a bigger problem, is probably that so many people are forced into rehab treatment, when they didn’t need it; Simply because the Judge didn’t know any better, or had a moralist ego above the accused.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
NikoKun, did you …
NikoKun, did you watch the entire video?
May 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
“10. Treatment does …
“10. Treatment does not need to be voluntary to be effective. Sanctions or enticements in the family, employment setting, or criminal justice system can significantly increase treatment entry, retention, and success.”
How horrible.
Clearly this training video from the 80s, isn’t valid anymore, as we already know that such forced treatment, often only leads back to addiction.
And you must also be aware, that forced treatment, skews the statistics, and forces some people who didn’t need treatment.