Question

Discuss the various treatments for substance use disorders. Do you feel certain treatments are more effective than others?

Answer 1

Various treatments for substance use disorders-

1- Cognitive behavioural therapy- CBT helps in the prevention and the curing of the substance disorders. This therapy reflects the psychological foundations of behaviourism.

The therapy helps to change and elevate the essential facets of the thoughts, sentiments and behaviour. It can be experimented either individually or in the groups, both.

2- Motivational Interviewing- The way to deal with the uncertainties, hesitation and fluctuation in the behaviour of the people who fall a pray to addictions and the substance abuse.

Patient listening, empathy, confrontation, elevation of optimism, acceleration of the self efficacy and keeping aside the chances of arguments are the fundamental attributes of this therapy. The therapy matches to specific situations and people.

3- Withdrawal therapy- Efforts towards ceasing from the substance use either with the provision of the less harmful substitute ingredient or completely stopping the intake of the said substance.

In some cases, the client/ sufferer may be needed to take/ shift/ admit to hospital. The method is also called as detoxification.

4- Contingency management- Getting dropped out and the another parameter of relapse can be best handled through this therapy. This helps to attain thoughtfulness, self control and achieve the lost dignity.

This method reflects the way of rewarding the concerned person. Alcohol addiction and marijuana addiction are generally treated with contingency management.

Out of the four therapies mentioned above, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy best works and tend to be more effective as it involves the "Human Touch" much more than the other three therapies.