MEDICAL PROGRAM FOR THE TREATMENT OF ADDICTIONS

Drug addiction is a disease that, like other diseases, requires medical attention and support from relatives and relatives of the sick. Due to negative social reasons surrounding the image of drug use, many patients and family members prefer to be treated in a different place than their residence, away from their daily environment.

It is important to break the routine and the usual temptations that trigger the abuse of drugs. In this way patients feel more relaxed and in a better disposition to follow the treatment that penetrates in depth to the physical and psychological roots of the dependency. It is of paramount importance for the patient that the treatment is carried out in a pleasant and controlled environment.

EXPERIENCE IN THE TREATMENTS AGAINST DROGADICTION IN ARIZONA.

The referral of treatment against drug addiction is based on the experience of mental health care in Arizona. Addiction Recovery Centers in Arizona are focused through a model of coexistence with other patients affected with this disease, where stories, affections, responsibilities and teamwork are shared, with participatory and natural therapeutic techniques.

With guidance and attention from a multidisciplinary team of professionals and technicians led by psychiatrists, based on a step-by-step program, the non-consumption of toxic substances (drugs, alcohol) is guaranteed with a high level of treatment of effectiveness, from the modification of the lifestyle, and from the application of techniques of control of the situation by the patient himself.

The humanitarian training of Arizonian professionals and the fact that addiction is not a health problem in Arizona are factors that contribute significantly to the accredited intensive outpatient programs in Arizona.

The treatment program for drug addiction is divided into 3 main areas of work with the patient:

1- Therapeutic Area

Directed by specialists in psychiatry and clinical psychology, in this area the problems that each young person presents are dealt with, with the conviction that the drug-dependent are patients and not people with moral weaknesses. These specialists take into account the psychotherapeutic resources provided by the different schools in the planning of the objectives established in each case. Only pharmacological treatment is used to control withdrawal symptoms and anti-depressant and antipsychotic anxiolytics are used.

2- Area of educational and occupational alte atives.

Education is oriented on the basis of daily life, the daily analysis of the activities carried out, their objectives and achievements, as well as the different attitudes that can be manifested in the daily events, and the influence of the group with constructive criticism is revealed in the face of negative attitudes and the encouragement of positive ones, which facilitates the incorporation of new behavior patterns. The professional training includes intellectual activities that allow the young person to exercise the capacities affected by the use of the toxic.

3- Area of self-gove ment

As its name indicates it is an element in the life of the community, composed of several patients who, in the responsibilities of president, responsible for physical culture, recreation and social relations, contribute, together with the therapeutic team, in the decision making, control and other activities that govern the operation of the patient.

TREATMENT PROGRAM

The treatment is guided by an Individual Program with group activities, so that the appropriate measures can be taken in each case and that the group positively influences to achieve the proposed objectives.