 Dear students, in this module, we are going to talk about the remedial approaches to drug abuse. How we can curb this manace? The drug addiction is a very chronic disease. Not only it's a medical disease, but it's a social disease. It is characterized by the compulsive or uncontrollable urge to seek drug because the person who is taking drugs becomes dependent on the drugs and it is a choice when you are doing it at your first time. However, later it becomes a compulsion and addiction which cannot be easily cured by yourself. So a person who is a drug addict need to be supported and need to be guided by the other people. So a holistic vision is need to be adopted in order to curb this manace. So objectives of drug addiction treatment must include that the person should be enabled to stop using drug and for that they need to be enrolled, they need to be registered, they need to be admitted in the rehabilitation centers. It should enable the person to stay out of the drug and it should help the person to be productive. That person should equally be engaged in the more productive activities, in the more engaging activities because once he becomes a drug addict, he gets isolated with the other family members because it is assumed that if the other family members are going closer to him, they may also become the victim of drug abuse or drug addiction. However, that person need to be supported after when he or she goes under treatment, he should not be stigmatized, he rather should be considered the part of the family, should be considered the part of the society because he is in a situation of fighting a war against impulsion and against the compulsion of getting into the situation in which he usually or initially has no control over it. And what should be the principles of effective treatment is that addiction is a complex but treatable disease. Not single treatment is the right way for everyone. It is contextually determined that to what extent a person has damaged himself and after careful examination of the person, a specialist can recommend that how he should be treated. So people need to have quick access to the treatment, they need to be getting that help, they need to be admitted to such rehabilitation centers as soon as possible. So staying in the treatment long enough is more critical. The longer you stay in those rehabilitation center the better are the probabilities to get out of this addiction. So the treatment plan must be reviewed often and modified to fit the patient's changing needs. The treatment should address other possible mental disorders as well which are quite associated with the drug addiction or with the drug consumption behavior. Sometimes the cause of drug addiction for one person can sustain and even if he is treated in the rehabilitation center it is more likely that he would be engaged again in that behavior because of the cause that has not yet been addressed. So the other possible disorder problems should also be addressed by having consultations with the professional psychiatrist. The treatment does not need to be voluntary but it should be much more effective and drug abuse during the treatment must be monitored continuously. So if the person is still taking drugs while he or she is in treatment it is not going to help. The treatment program should test the patients for the HIV AIDS as well because it is more likely that if a person is a drug addict he or she is more likely to be carrying the virus of HIV AIDS. And then behavioral counseling is also effective after medication. The medical devices and application used to treat the withdrawal symptoms or to deliver the skillful training and evaluation and treatment for occurring the mental health issues such as depression and anxiety also need to be addressed while the patient is under treatment. And along with that long term follow up to re-indulge the drug taking needs to be monitored because once you are a drug addict and even you have gotten the treatment from a rehabilitation center it is still likely that in your lifetime you can indulge into the drug addiction again in any time in your life. The holistic approach needs to be adopted for a continuous monitoring for a drug addict.