As I mentioned in the previous post, there are several therapy methods for drug rehabilitation, and one of them is the cognitive therapy. I want to make a small diversion before starting, related to a comment on one of my previous posts about cannabis, where I have inserted a picture of Amy Winehouse. Someone was [...]

Psychoanalysis developed by Sigmund Freud and modified by his followers has offered an explanation of substance abuse. According to them, the main cause of the addiction syndrome is the unconscious need to entertain and to enact various kinds of fantasies. Theoretically, specific drugs facilitate specific fantasies. The addiction syndrome is also associated with life trajectories [...]

There are several methods of treatment applied in the drug rehabilitation. The traditional treatment for drug  addiction recovery is based primarily on counseling, but every day new things come up, not to mention that not all the patients are the same. For instance, recent discoveries have shown that those suffering from drug addiction have more [...]

In this world of drug rehabilitation you can find various types of programs with various types of treatment, most of them offering residential treatment, the so called “in-patient” program. Of course, there are a lot of others methods, like “out-patient” programs, local support groups, extended care centers and recovery or sober houses. Lately, the new [...]

We have spoked in the previous post about drug detox. Today we will try to define the drug rehabilitation, known also as drug rehab or simply rehab. Drug rehab includes the processes of medical and psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances. The purpose is to induce the patient to cease substance abuse, in order [...]