The Current Study and Potential Treatment of Drug Abuse

Abstract

It has been a long time since China started to strictly control drug transaction and usage. There are increasing compulsory detoxification institution, institutions to do voluntary de-toxification, and community drug treatment rehabilitation. These detoxification institutions implement medication detoxification, psychological detoxification, and doing moral & physical education, aiming at helping the rehabilitation personnel and reduce the relapse rate after getting treatment in the compulsory detoxification institution. To avoid reoccur-rence and suffering from a long-term imprisonment for drug control, biomedical research to improve drug abuse treatment and addiction prevention are in need. This paper is going to summarize the previous and ongoing research on the mechanisms of addiction, together with the approaches of the drug abuse treatment to state some analysis and suggestion about the scientific ways to help drug rehabilitation to find more effective and efficient ways for the treatment of drug abuse to decrease the relapse rate and rehabilitated time.