Addiction Treatment

Best Treatment for Addiction

Table of Content

Best Treatment for Addiction1

Thesis1

What is addiction?1

Introduction1

Different types of treatments for Addiction3

Medical treatment3

Experience in the drug treatments4

Psychological treatment example7

Social treatment example9

Comparison of treatments10

Conclusion12

References14

Best Treatment for Addiction

Thesis

Medical treatment is the best treatment of addiction

What is addiction?

Addiction (from Greek: toxikon "poison" and mania, "madness" ) is a dependent physical and psychological one or more substances toxic ( analgesics , stimulants and other psychotropic drugs ) without therapeutic justification. He is currently a matter of addiction in the plural because the consumption practices have changed the part of multiple drug use (alcohol, drugs, various drugs, synthetic or natural, etc.) . The uses are moving towards an uncontrollable urge to continue to consume the product, accompanied by addiction and then dependence (Baker, 1999).

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the strict definition of addiction is four elements: an urge to consume the product, a tendency to increase the dose, a dependence psychological and sometimes physical, and negative impact on daily life (emotional, social, and economic).

Introduction

We are dealing with an encounter between an individual and a product in a particular context. Note the importance of the social factor. Drug abuse has always existed but it is only relatively recently that it is punishable by law, along with the fact that it has been democratized.

On December 31, 1970, the members involved quickly by voting unanimously, the law against drug addiction: it had become a danger to youth. But in fact there at that time 500 drug deaths in France, compared with 50,000 deaths from alcohol, and 20,000 deaths on the road. So we see a gap between imagined danger, although real, and the facts. There is a real experience of plague that has settled in some countries, no relation to reality.

In 2010, 13 million American people have tried cannabis at least once in their lifetime (3 in 10 adults). It is estimated the number at 1.2 million for cocaine, 900,000 for ecstasy and 370 000 for heroin. It is interesting to compare with the experience of alcohol (43 million French) and tobacco (36 million) (Boyd 2009).

Other comparisons: regular use of cannabis for 1.3 million French and 550,000 are in daily consumption (regular use of alcohol: 9.8 million daily and 6.5 million. For tobacco use, whether regular or daily basis, the figure is the same: 12 million French). At the clinical level, we cannot give credit to the distinction between soft drugs and hard drugs, or between licit and illicit drugs. The WHO (World Health Organization) prefers to define a “state of psychological dependence with or without physical dependence associated with the repeated use of a legal product or non-legal". This helps avoid the problem all socio-cultural. In 2010 in France, 37 000 cannabis users (80% men) came to visit in a specialized care, mostly as an outpatient. Half were sent by the courts. People welcomed to "clinics for young consumers" are constantly increasing since the late 1990s.

Addiction is associated with the ...