Rokhlin, Professor, Head of ...

To do this, pat him on the cheek, to see if he responds to a loud cry. If the victim is unconscious, turn it on its side. Try to clear your mouth of mucus and vomit. Check for breathing and pulse on the carotid artery. Immediately call an ambulance. Before the arrival of the doctors continue to monitor the heart rate and breathing. When signs of respiratory failure proceed to artificial respiration. - A teenager was treated, he decided to stick to a sober lifestyle. How to deal wit? - Start small. Rearrange the furniture in his room, look zakoulochki whether there zanachek. Change the set of cassettes, computer games, to which he applied, absorbed drugs. It is necessary to update your wardrobe and, say, black clothes (my favorite color of heroin addicts) to change to the light. Try to pull the child out of that circle of people who pushed him to drugs and who can at least talk to bring the memories of them: "Do you remember how it was when we're dragged along." Continuously maintain in the patient motivation to recover. Rehabilitation - a lengthy process, followed by prevention, we call it even secondary. Teach young people to recognize the precursor of failure, which is very important. This is a condition in which a man realizes that it's desire to use drugs. But he does not run immediately to implement it, and comes to us in the center, tells about his condition, analyze it, that is, it would be included as an internal observer. If a person learns to critically evaluate their condition and their actions, then he will leave the disease to recover. But the period of rehabilitation, I repeat, can be quite lengthy. So, we need to teach the patient to live in remission. Review your relationship with him and with one another. Eventually the child turns to drugs for a reason. He was dissatisfied with himself, which is looking, he something is missing. Most likely your attention and understanding, and he could not find answers to your questions at home, refers to those who surround him on the street. Remember when and why he stopped to share with you their problems, joys, experiences? Think about what you can offer him in return questionable hobbies? Prepare yourself for what you have to teach him to enter into life once again, that in all circumstances, he forced himself to say "no" to drugs. Lydia PRONIN

Principles of drug addiction treatment

M. Rokhlin, Professor, head of the department of clinical studies of drug addiction, Kozlov Ph. med. Sciences, Senior Researcher, Institute of Addiction Russian Ministry of Health improve treatment of substance abuse is one of the major problems of modern Addiction. Its various aspects analyzed in numerous studies of both foreign and domestic authors. Formation and development of drug addiction, as is known, is characterized by the development of the three main syndromes: psychological dependence, physical dependence and tolerance. The main goal of therapy is relief of symptoms of the disease.