Principle #5: Effective treatment should attend to all the needs of the drug addict and only to his or her drug abuse. The treatment must be an answer to the person’s drug abuse as well as any kind of problem either psychological or legal. Its appropriateness to the gender, age, cultur...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse's guide, "Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research-based Guide", presents empirically validated principles of effective treatments for other SUDs. The present report enumerates these principles, briefly describes some of the empirical evidence supporting ...
By averaging outcomes over the diverse programs included in EPT, we found that five of the NIDA principles examined are supported: matching treatment to the client’s needs; attending to the multiple needs of clients; behavioral counseling interventions; treatment plan reassessment; and counseling to...
He was interested in and agreeable to the notion of finding God or the sacred in all things and was happy to integrate this perspective into his treatment plan. The therapist pointed out to him that the sexy women he was watching on the pornography websites were real people, not just ...
Drug checking is increasingly being explored outside of festivals and events to be an ongoing service within communities, frequently integrated within responses to illicit drug overdose. The choice of instrumentation is a common question, and the demands
There are some suggestions to prioritize new indications for neuromodulation-research according to criteria like the impact on personal life, available treatment options and scientific preclarification (Carter et al., 2011; Kuhn et al., 2009 for several forms of addiction). Having in mind the risks...
The amygdala, one of the most studied brain structures, integrates brain-wide heterogeneous inputs and governs multidimensional outputs to control diverse behaviors central to survival, yet how amygdalar input-output neuronal circuits are organized remains unclear. Using a simplified cell-type- and proje...
(Emrich et al, 1981), and rodent work has indicated that other HDACi may prove effective in treating a variety of neurological maladies including depression- related illnesses (Covington et al, 2009), drug addiction (Romieu et al, 2008), Huntington's disease, and Parkinson's disease (see ...
Answer and Explanation: When it comes to reducing drug use, classical conditioning can be applied to help people overcome addiction. If someone has a habit of using drugs in...
For present purposes, “consultation” forensic psychiatry in contrast to “therapeutic” forensic psychiatry refers to the application of principles of clinical psychiatry and human behavior in criminal, civil, and family areas of the law. “Therapeutic” psychiatry refers to clinical treatment of indiv...