victomology

Introduction

The process of rediscovery is a holistic approach addiction treatment Regardless of the type of addiction the patient has to be treated in a holistic manner in complete recovery is to take place . Addiction affects all aspects of a person 's life from the emotional to the physical and from the social to the spiritual . That is why it is useless targeting only one aspect of life . For a treatment to be effective and for relapse to be prevented it is necessary that all aspects of the patient 's life be

treated and a 'process of rediscovery ' of the self takes place

Consider patients that are addicted to prescription drugs . Many drugs taken over a long period of time become addictive and doctors have to carefully wean the patient off the drug so that there is no drug abuse involved . However , patients taking such powerful drugs cannot be weaned off without a combination of treatments

The first step of any addiction is to recognize the problem . Unless the patient accepts and acknowledges that a problem exists there can be no treatment . The mind is a powerful tool . The mind can make people believe that they are more in control than they actually are . Here we will concentrate on a patient of depression addicted to prescription drugs

The First Step : Recognize the Problem

When patients get addicted to prescription drugs it is a problem that begins with the physical but ends with the mental associations . Consider a depressed woman going...