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Treatment Principles
Treatment Principles (Health Education · Treatment Approaches for Drug Addiction) — "Drug addiction can be treated, but it is not simple. Because addiction is…
Ideas in this flowchart
- Drug addiction can be treated, but effective recovery requires comprehensive and sustained care.
- Addiction is a chronic, complex, but treatable disease.
- It affects brain function and behavior.
- Briefly stopping drug use does not cure addiction.
- Most patients need long-term or repeated care.
- Treatment must support abstinence and recovery.
- Treatment should help people stop using drugs and remain drug-free.
- Treatment should help people become productive in family, work, and society.
- Effective care must be accessible, individualized, and continuous.
- People need quick access to treatment.
- Treatment must address all patient needs, not only drug use.
- Patients must stay in treatment long enough for it to be effective.
- Treatment plans must be reviewed and modified as needs change.
- Treatment should address other possible mental disorders.
- Treatment does not need to be voluntary to be effective.
- Treatment must include ongoing health and drug-use monitoring.
- Drug use during treatment must be monitored continuously.
- Programs should test for infectious diseases and teach ways to reduce transmission risks.
- People in the criminal justice system may need additional treatment services.
