Prospects for using the “IMEDIS-TEST” method in drug treatment practice

AUTHORS : Salnikov I.Yu.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Department of Psychotherapy and Narcology FPKMR PFUR, Moscow, Russia

YEAR : 2005 | Category : Data

The problems of drug addiction and substance abuse in modern society remain extremely acute. The number of patients and deaths from drugs is growing, while the number of people who have tried for the first time or who use drugs irregularly or extremely rarely remains in the shadow (Titanov A.S., 1999; Shabanov P.D., 2003). The provision of medical care to this category of patients is not always effective and purposeful. To solve the problems facing public health in narcology, more and more effective and reliable methods are required, both in the diagnosis and in the treatment of this pathology.

The development of drug addiction as a disease is a process that is clinically expressed by the steady appearance of drug syndromes and complications of chronic intoxication in the mental and somatoneurological spheres. Several main stages can be distinguished in the development of the disease (Pyatnitskaya I.N., 1994). In the first phase, drug abuse alternates with indefinitely long periods of abstinence. There are no clinical symptoms of drug addiction. Euphoria manifests itself as a subjective feeling of pleasure, pleasure. A preference for a certain drug and the regularity of its use are formed. The primary effect of drug administration begins to fade.

The second stage of the prodrome of the disease is an increase in daily tolerance, the transition to multiple drug use during the day. As a result, there is an increase in vitality, sleep disturbance. This period is difficult to differentiate. The third stage (stage I of drug addiction) is the regular use of the drug. The emergence and formation of a syndrome of changes in reactivity and a syndrome of mental dependence in the form of an obsessive craving for drugs.