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Which drug addiction treatment is the best?
By Jeff Lakie
The answer is simple: there is no such thing as the
best drug addiction treatment. Depending on the
kind of the addiction, your age and social situation
different treatments may be chosen for your
benefit.
Here are a few most common drug addiction
treatments (from www.nida.nih.gov
website):
(1) Relapse Prevention - this treatment helps you
control your behavior, learn to identify dangerous
situations and avoid them. It concentrates on
augmenting your learning processes and
developing your own defense skills.
(2) Matrix model - strict and personal, with
therapist acting as your friend and as your coach
at the same time. This drug addiction treatment
seems to be intensive and deep. It works as much
on your consciousness as on forcing into you a kind
of drill which prevents you from using drugs.
(3) Supportive-Expressive Psychotherapy - it works
mostly through interpersonal links, creating your
sphere of comfort and teaches you to trust in other
people support. Good and comfortable, used
mostly for cocaine and heroin addicts.
(4) Individualized drug counseling is a drug
addiction treatment that concentrates not only on
a drug addiction, but works also on other related
subject - employment status, family problems etc.
It's a short-term therapy, but when it helps, it
helps in a big way.
(5) Motivational Enhancement Therapy - this one
concentrates on the addicts will - its aim is to
incite the will to fight the addiction. It changes
people, but in a good way. It makes them stronger
and more focused.
(6) Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents - the
treatment is based on assumption that by showing
desired behavior and rewarding any steps addicts
take toward achieving it, this drug addiction
treatment will change patients behavior to drug-
free one.
(7) Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) for
Adolescents takes a different approach and tries to
help addicts by their families. It offers interesting
and fruitful approach as many addictions have their
roots in dysfunctional families, but it doesn't need
only the addict's cooperation, but also the help
from the family, which may be sometimes difficult.
About the Author
Jeff Lakie is the founder of Rehab Resources a website providing information on drug and alcohol rehabilitaiton treatments
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