Treatment and Rehabilitation of Substance Use Disorder: Significance of Islamic Input in Malaysia

Mahmood Nazar Mohamed,S Marican

doi:10.31344/ijhhs.v2i4.57

Abstract

Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing disease which can be treated. Treatment, however is dependent on many variables; the drug of choice, severity of drug use, individual and personality characteristics such as religiosity; community and environmental factors, familial and social support, employment and many more. Many countries used the supply and demand reduction strategies, nonetheless some are successful, and some are not. The advent of HIV-Aids among IDUs forces treatment specialist to look at other alternatives. Harm reduction offer pragmatic approaches though sometimes controversial avenues to provide solutions to the HIV and substance users. Drug Substitution Therapies for people using opioids have proven to be more effective with other non-medical approaches such as contingency management, behavioral interventions and spiritual/religious enhancement. This paper reports the experience of Malaysia in its approach to SUD treatment and providing Islamic religious input to treatment and rehabilitation programs in government and non-government facilitiesInternational Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 02 No. 04 October’18. Page : 209-216

Highlights

Treating a chronic relapsing disease is not a simple undertaking
McLellan et. al[2] reported that illnesses like asthma and hypertension have 50-70% relapse rate; type I Diabetes has 30-50% relapse rate; drug addiction exhibit a relapse rate of 40-60%. All this illness especially drug addiction can be treated with a combination of treatment modalities and approaches.[1,3]
Effective treatment attends to multiple needs of the individual, not just his or her drug use

Summary

Introduction

Treating a chronic relapsing disease is not a simple undertaking. It involves the illness itself, behavioural and psychological components, belief system and spirituality.[1].

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