Survey to find the latest statistics of drug addicts in the country / Who is “addicted”?

Majid Ghorbani, Director General of Treatment and Social Support of the Anti-Narcotics Headquarters, in an interview with Fars News Agency’s social reporter, referring to the process of treating drug addicts, stated: “All the treatment methods for drug addicts in the country are based on a scientific basis, so these treatments are calculated.”

He added: We have focused on one or more treatment methods for the treatment of addicts, including methods such as MMT, which is a maintenance treatment for methadone addiction.

Benefiting from non-drug treatments in the treatment of drug addicts

The General Director of Treatment and Social Support of the Anti-Narcotics Headquarters, referring to the use of non-drug treatment in addicts, continued: We expect to be able to benefit from non-drug treatment in addition to drug treatment. In fact, we are looking for diversity in different treatment methods. do.

At the same time, he explained: We are trying to think about the diversity of the treatment basket, this is because, in addition to methadone, we can promote the use of buprenorphine and use psychological treatments or even use self-help and peer groups.

The need to highlight the role of helpers alongside addicts

The General Director of Treatment and Social Support of the Narcotics Control Headquarters pointed out the important role of counselors in helping addicts and said: We want the role of counselors to become more effective in the discussion of addiction and its treatment because it helps an addict to recover after quitting or While quitting, seek services that restore work, family, and social support, if these occur, hope for treatment and retention in treatment will increase.

Creating a new system to obtain the latest statistics of drug addicts

In response to a question about the latest statistics on the number of drug addicts and recoveries, Ghorbani said: In this regard, we have recently launched an intelligent information collection system that can show the statistics at the moment of the amount of inputs and outputs of recoveries. .

By presenting the definition of addiction, he called recurrence as one of the characteristics of this disease and said: many activists in the field of addiction do not see recurrence as a color, in fact we do not have a definitive treatment for addiction, that is why we use recovery. who is still using methadone and taking care of his life and work is a cured person.

The General Director of Treatment and Social Support of the Anti-Narcotics Headquarters emphasized: International standards say that a person who has been away from drugs for 1-2 years and is no longer tempted to return, is a recovered and cured person.

What percentage of addicts succeed in quitting addiction?

At the same time, he stated: Global statistics say that in the treatment of drug addicts, with the best conditions for the provision of medical services, we may see an improvement between 30 and 40%. In our country, it is naturally less. more than.

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Ghorbani stated that the last epidemiology was done in 2016 in the field of addiction, and noted: In this outbreak, the house-to-house method was used. This year, it is one of our plans to conduct an epidemiology and we are waiting to see what the results of the statistics will be. .

Major production of drugs for addiction in the country

Regarding the latest trend in the production of anti-addiction drugs in the country, he stated: the fact is that most of the anti-addiction drugs are produced in the country, but along with the use of these drugs, the role of psychotropic drugs is also important, and therefore they are used alongside the main drugs. Psychiatric drugs are also important, and a part of psychotropic drugs must be imported from abroad, but the majority of the production of drugs needed by addicts is produced inside the country.

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