| There has been an enormous increase in the number | | | | Many behavioral treatments have been found to be |
| of people seeking treatment for stimulant addictions | | | | very effective including both residential and |
| over the past few years. The majority of individuals | | | | outpatient approaches. Integration of both types of |
| seeking treatment are likely to be poly-drug users, or | | | | treatments is proved to be the most effective |
| users of many substances. So, such addiction is a | | | | approach for treating addiction. This may include |
| complex problem with a myriad of biological, social, | | | | adding to or removing from an individual's treatment |
| familial, and environmental factors. Therefore, the | | | | regimen different components or elements. |
| treatment is usually complex and must address a | | | | A famous behavioral therapy component that shows |
| variety of problems involving the psychobiological, | | | | positive results in many drug-addicted populations is |
| social, and pharmacological aspects of the patients' | | | | contingency management. Contingency management |
| drug abuse. | | | | uses a voucher-based system to give positive |
| With the treatment process being complex, | | | | rewards for staying in treatment and remaining drug |
| organizations are aggressively pursuing the | | | | free. Based on drug-free urine tests, the patients |
| identification and testing of new treatment | | | | earn points that can be exchanged for items capable |
| medications. Several newly emerging compounds are | | | | of encouraging healthy living, such as joining a gym or |
| being investigated to assess their safety and efficacy | | | | going to a movie and dinner. |
| in treating addiction. One of the most promising drug | | | | Cognitive-behavioral therapy is another approach to |
| medications to date is Selegeline. Disulfiram, a | | | | help them abstain from drugs. It emphasizes addicts |
| medication that has been used to treat alcoholism, | | | | during the learning process about the addicting |
| has also been shown in clinical studies to be effective | | | | conditions and guides them to refrain from them in |
| in reducing drug abuse. Because of mood changes | | | | the future. Therapeutic communities or residential |
| experienced during the early stages of drug | | | | programs with planned lengths of stay of 6 to 12 |
| abstinence, antidepressant drugs produce great | | | | months focus on the resocialization of the individual |
| benefits. | | | | to society. |