Addiction Treatment

You are in great trouble if you are addicted or live with an addict. Due to addiction, most of the addicts die and also take down their family members with them. But if an addicted person really wants to recover, he must remain honest to himself. Addiction treatment can comprise medications, behavioral therapy (such as cognitive therapy, counseling or psychotherapy) or their combination. Drug Addictions can be broken through several Addiction treatments.

Agonist Maintenance Treatment is a kind of addiction treatment which is mainly provided to the opiate addicts. This addiction treatment helps to reduce the patients craving for the opiate. Due to the sustained and adequate dosage of methadone, a well tested medication, the patient becomes stabilized and can function normally.

Narcotic Antagonist Treatment which uses Naltrexone is conducted in outpatient settings. This addiction treatment has very few side effects and is taken orally for a certain period of time. By using this addiction treatment, all the effects of self administered opiate gets totally blocked. This addiction treatment can help to break the habit of opiate addiction.

Outpatient Drug-Free Treatment is a kind of addiction treatment, which costs much less than impatient or residential treatment. Group counseling is given more emphasis in many outpatient programs. Some of these programs are designed for the addiction treatment of those patients, who are suffering from mental and medical health problems along with their drug disorder.

In case of Long-Term Residential Treatment, special care is provided to the patients for 24 hours per day. Addiction is viewed regarding an individual's mental and social deficits, and this addiction treatment mainly aims in developing the socially creative life of the addicted.

Short-Term Residential Programs originally aimed to deal with alcohol problems, but after the cocaine epidemic in 1980's, many started to deal with addiction treatment and illicit drug abuse.

In case of Medical Detoxification treatment, an individual is withdrawn from an addicting drug under a physician's care. In case of some types of drugs, like alcohol, barbiturates and other sedatives, detoxification may be medically necessary, and if it is withdrawn suddenly it may be deadly or medically dangerous.

From several researches, it is evident that, if we combine criminal justice sanction along with drug treatment, it can be effective in reducing drug use and other crimes.

In case of Prison Based Treatment Program, those under the addiction treatment should be separated from the prison population so that, the "prison culture" is not able to overcome the progress towards recovery.

Although it is very difficult to break a drug addiction, the several addiction treatments available make it possible.