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Prevent and treat drug addictions? It’s possible…
[mis à jour le 17 May 2004 à 08h55]
On one condition, that is to give it everything you’ve got. Because, according to a WHO report, "drug addictions really do stem from alterations within the brain, just the same as neurological and psychiatric diseases".
Therefore, they must be treated as diseases, and not simply considered as a vague social integration problem… Entitled Neuroscience of Psychoactive Substance Use and Dependence, this 40 pages booklet is a collection of the latest scientific discoveries dealing with the role of the brain in drug addictions.
Written by experts from 11 countries, it accurately represents the amazing progress in neurosciences. The authors also insist on the fact that drug addictions are related to several interdependent factors: psychosocial, environmental, biological and genetic. According to them, the efficacy of prevention and treatment is based on one pre-requisite "do not pillory".
As confirms Dr. Catherine Le Galès-Camus, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization, "we don’t know yet, how curable dependency is (…). However, recovery is possible thanks to several effective interventions". You may access this report in English, full text. Source: WHO, March 19 2004
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