Health Information - Health Articles » Addiction http://www.healthpm.com Health articles, health news and latest happenings in the field of health and medical! Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:04:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Intervention Program for drug abuser http://www.healthpm.com/intervention-program-for-drug-abuser.html http://www.healthpm.com/intervention-program-for-drug-abuser.html#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:30:28 +0000 Editor http://www.healthpm.com/intervention-program-for-drug-abuser.html As far as the drug addiction is concerned, the gateway to bring a change usually occurs, when you feel that, somehow your life has become unmanageable. It doesn’t matter how it happened, what’s important is that you’re looking for ways to deal with your current situation. Once you find new ways to cope with circumstances, without the use of drugs, the tight grip of addiction will begin to loosen. Recovery from all addictions is possible with the right medical help and social support.

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Intervention

An intervention is a coordinated attempt by one, or often many, people to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis. The term drug intervention is most often used when the traumatic event involves addiction to drugs or other items. Intervention can also refer to the act of using a technique within a therapy session.

A Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health study, found a significant reduction in drug use by those who received intervention program.

Intervention programs have proven effective in instigating positive behavior changes in alcoholics. Introductory assessments of this process in drug abusers have been motivating enough to investigate it deeply as a therapeutic tool to enhance treatment.

Research work

The study was conducted on 1,175 men and women who had cocaine or heroin addiction, then divided into two groups, an intervention group and a control group.

During a twenty minute intervention, counselor, tried to establish relationship with participants by taking permission to argue drug use, explaining the horrifying effects of drug use, eliciting the difference between real and imaginative life.

An action plan was part of intervention also, a written list of treatment options, and a follow up telephone call 10 days later. Members of the control group received only the written list.

Conclusion

Six months after the intervention session, the researchers came to know:

  • Among cocaine abused, 22.3 percent of the intervention people abstinent from the drug, compared with 16.9 percent of the control group.
  • Among heroin abused, 40.2 percent of the intervention people were abstinent from the drug, as compare to 30.6 percent of the control group.
]]> http://www.healthpm.com/intervention-program-for-drug-abuser.html/feed 0 The Recognition of Self-Esteem: The Path to Prevent the Relapse from Addiction http://www.healthpm.com/the-recognition-of-self-esteem-the-path-to-prevent-the-relapse-from-addiction.html http://www.healthpm.com/the-recognition-of-self-esteem-the-path-to-prevent-the-relapse-from-addiction.html#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:12:48 +0000 admin http://www.healthpm.com/the-recognition-of-self-esteem-the-path-to-prevent-the-relapse-from-addiction.html As the outer beauty of this world and the wonderful people living in it impresses us, we tend to forget the people who are living in the dark world of addiction to drugs, alcohols and many other habits that are a black strain on the society. There are people, who by habit or by destiny, are bound to be push into this world that leaves a very little scope to bounce back from there.

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There are procedures to free these people from their respective addiction, but the rate of relapsing is also very considerable.

The Causes of Relapsing
A person gets involved in the world of drugs and other addictives due to a number of factors. The most significant cause for this is the image of the person in his own eyes. If the person starts believing that he is of no use for his family as well as the society, it leads to the creation of the negative self-image for the person. Even if he is made to leave the addictives, there are huge chances left for him to get back to the same world. Thus, it becomes necessary to make him or her realize positive aspects of his personality and thus, building his self-esteem in his own eyes.
Low Self-Esteem Is the Path to Addiction
The person with low self-esteem always tries to look for the options that are capable of hiding him from the outside world, so that the people around him for his inabilities never notice him. For this, he tries to cut all of his contacts from the real world and pushes himself to towards the things that help him to be in the state of unconsciousness. The addictives like drugs and alcohol solve his purpose and become the inseparable part of his life.

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Listening From the Expert
In the view of Dr. Harry Henshaw, who is a world-renowned psychotherapist and the introducer of the self-esteem program at G & G Holistic, it is important to refine the thought process of each and every individual so that he or she can build up a repot for himself or herself, before introducing it to the world outside. If a person doesn’t think positive about himself, then it is not possible to make others think positive for him. The same is the case with the drug and alcohol addicts.
Achieving the Target
The process of boosting up the self-esteem of the person is not an easy process. One has to help a person to bounce back, who has left all the hopes of making his or her life better. It is necessary to make the person realize that the reliance on the addictives is not the only option left to fill the empty spots of his life. The realization of self-esteem could be achieved by helping the addict to know his good qualities and the contribution he can make for the good will of the society as a whole.

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