Types of Intervention

TYPES OF INTERVENTION IN ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOUR

• Biological Interventions
• Heroin Addiction and Methadone
• methadone is synthetic used to treat heroin addiction.
• mimics the effects but is less addictive produces euphoria but to a lesser degree slowly increasing amounts of methadone to produce a tolerance which is then decreased
• Drug treatments for gambling addiction
• no drug has been found
• yet can have beneficial effects
• gamblers treated with SSRIs to increase serotonin levels showed more improvements compared to a control group. 
• dopamine receptor antagonist works by reducing rewarding and reinforcing properties of gambling behaviour, reducing the urge to gamble.
• Psychological Interventions
• Reinforcement
• give people rewards for not engaging in the behaviour 
• investigated whether monetary rewards would produce better patient outcomes for people on methadone.
• participant in rewards condition drew for prizes of various monetary value each time they tested negative for drugs. drug used dropped significantly. 60%
• Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies
• CBT changes the way people think about their addiction, learn new ways of coping. 
• Public Health Interventions
• The NIDA Study
• designed to intervene in the cycle of personal and social problems associated with drug abuse.
• prvision of a combination of group and indivdual drug counselling reduced…