Dual therapy is more effective than mono therapy in lowering the relapse rate in substance abuse

Abstract

Substance use is one of the serious social menaces which need comprehensive treatment and preventive measures. The effectiveness of dual therapy (group psychotherapy along with the pharmacotherapy)when compare to mono therapy in lowering the relapse and increasing the follow up rates in patients of substance abuse has been focused in the study. Patients who came for the treatment of substance abuse were motivated to participate in the study and with their consent they were selected as participant for this study. They were grouped into experimental and control group for the purpose of study. Experimental group participants were made to attend the regular group therapy sessions as part of treatment program. Along with pharmacotherapy group sessions were conducted. Whereas controlled group were continued with mono therapy. (Pharmacotherapy alone) Therefore the main objective of the study was studying the effectiveness of dual therapy in the treatment and management of substance abuse coupled with their follow up for the treatment and their relapse rate. The subjects selected for the study were 120 patients (60 experimental group and 60 controlled groups) with substance abuse from Kripa Deaddiction and Revival Center, Bangaluru, Karnataka India. They were selected by random sampling technique. The exclusive personalized manual recording system used by the researcher for the maintaining attendance of the participant patients in their follow up to treatment and also to record the participant relapse rates. The data collected were tabulated in the by variable tables and examined the property movement of variables and the relationship between the variables. The analysis resulted positively corroborated with the objective described in the study. This study paves the way for promoting and advocating dual therapy use in the substance abuse treatment centers there by curtailing this social menace at large.