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 associated 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 assessment 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

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[SarahRichterKMK]

This is a great video. I am a highschool freshman in an honors English class. Right now we are working on career research and planning. The career I am researching is being a substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselor. this video includes alot of useful information. Thanks.

[rosaryfilms]

@SarahRichterKMK - thank you very much for your comments! Regards...

[mandygcruz]

hi rosaryfilm.. its been a long time... i truely glad for you video.. i hoping to see more of your helpful video.. i always watching your video to share it with my patient here in the philippines. your a blessing to us.

[rosaryfilms]

mandygcruz, hello -- good to hear from you! Thank you very much for your comments! Congratulations on your good works with your patients! Regards...

[camelhopper]

So if it's a public health issue, why do they send people to jail instead of a hospital>

[camelhopper]

And if it is a health issue, why is the director of the national institute on drug abuse not a medical doctor.

[happinesson]

drug abuse ruins our future. say No to Drugs! This video really educates me..

[gadionson1]

i love this video!. it gives me more knowledge about drug abuse and its treatment.

[chazimperator]

prod in 1987 obviously antiquates this info; hope to find more timely material tht coherently & appropriately addrs the current "paradigms." Special emphasis on multiple viable, compassionate treatments. Too much mass culture/media exposure to such potentially destructive treatments like "interventions," which have become the focus of self-serving "reality TV." If people are going to to be helped, these ignorant media trends need countermeasures- wide nat'l dialog & cutting edge science

[DarthMink]

The fact that you speak from 20 years of experience only means you can say why you think you use/used drugs, that doesn't mean you can speak for me and every other person on the planet.

[turboeddy]

i speak from 20 years of experiance my friend .

[DarthMink]

I'm sure people use drugs for different reasons but I know a lot of people do them just because they like to get high. You can't just generalize a single reason why every drug user in the entire world does what they do but I think the majority of people who do drugs do so basically because either they like the way they feel when they're high, or because they liked the way drugs made them feel at one time but now only continue to use because they're addicted.

[turboeddy]

@DarthMink people do drugs to hide behind the things they dont want face in life .drugs are a armour to hide behind a defence mechanism