Drug treatment programs

Increasing Compliance in Tubercular i Drug Treatment Program... 

Due to drug treatment program budgetary constraints and the relative unavailability of clinicians having expertise in the use of... 

Sending that same patient to a drug treatment program with no help for the depression is not much better. A structured dual diagnosis program, which treats both the addiction and the depression, has the best chance of helping the patient. 

Drug treatment programs are proven to work. In one specific example, a therapeutic approach to treating people arrested for drug-related offenses involved community based care following prison release and reduced the probability of rearrest by 57 percent. 

United States Narcotic Addiction Rehabilitation Act authorizes the civil commitment of narcotic addicts, and gives federal financial assistance to states and local authorities to develop a local system of drug treatment programs. Methadone clinic treatment programs begin to dramatically rise. 

Generous funding of drug treatment programs is costly and politically challenging but absolutely essential. A 1995 study by the Rand Corporation found that every dollar spent in drug treatment saves society seven dollars in crime, policing, incarceration, and health services. 

With these difficulties in mind, drug treatment programs do surprisingly well at keeping people on the road to recovery. The NIDA says the treatment of addiction is as successful in 2002 as the treatment of other chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. 

Researchers have found strong associations between opiate addiction and theft. Opiate addicts steal to obtain greater amounts and quality of drug. The goal of many researchers and drug treatment programs is to not only to treat the opiate addiction problem of the individual but also to reduce the amount of theft and other crimes associated with this problem. 

Specialized treatment programs targeted at inhalant abusers are still rare in the United States, although many general drug treatment programs can... 

Drug treatment programs across the United States that specialize in treating substance abusers under 18 years old were surveyed about their current population of patients. The survey found their clients use a variety of drugs, although alcohol, marijuana, and hallucinogens... 

GENERAL CATEGORIES OF INPATIENT DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAMS... 

There are three main types of drug treatment programs available. They are outpatient drug-free treatment, long-term residential programs, and short-term residential programs. 

An alternative strategy for the treatment of cocaine addiction involves the use of an anticocaine vaccine. Experiments in rats have demonstrated reduced desire for the drug as well as reduced uptake of cocaine into the brain. The vaccine consists of a synthetic cocaine derivative attached to proteins that trigger immune responses to cocaine. The cocaine derivative is not addictive and brain levels of free cocaine were reduced by 40-60 percent in the study. There are approximately 400,000 cocaine abusers in drug-treatment programs in the United States. 

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