Why drug addiction requires inpatient treatment

  If you find out that your loved one is using drugs, then what should you do as a family member? Call the police? Force them to do so? Send them to rehab? Keep them under close supervision at home? This is certainly the most important question in front of the family, and the most asked question in the clinic. We often refer to drugs as a sociological concept, which refers to chemical substances that are highly addictive, non-medical in use, and socially prohibited.  Secondly, long-term drug use can damage nerve fibers in the brain, causing neurotransmitter disorders in the brain, which can be difficult to restore to normal without drug intervention, and if not effectively controlled over time, the condition is prolonged and becomes chronic, which can lead to schizophrenia, and as we age, we are prone to Parkinson’s disease, which can have lifelong effects.  Once again there are clear medical diagnoses related to drug use: drug use, drug abuse, drug dependence, drug withdrawal, drug intoxication, and drug-induced mental and behavioral disorders, and there are clear treatment methods and principles of management. At the same time, inpatient treatment creates an isolated environment, which, combined with what the drug user sees and hears and psychological guidance, can give him a deeper understanding of drugs and thus motivate him to voluntarily quit.  The main reason for relapse after using traditional drugs such as heroin is the unbearable withdrawal symptoms. Medical substitution, the use of antagonistic drugs, mood regulators, comprehensive assessment of physical condition, timely detection of underlying diseases, and strengthening of physical fitness can significantly reduce the pain of drug users while effectively avoiding the risk of life threatening and infectious diseases during forced withdrawal and reducing mortality.  Although heroin is currently the main drug of choice, the use of new drugs, with their more secretive nature, more flexible drug use, and the obvious aggregation and recreational nature, are potentially more dangerous and are currently being transformed from the use of traditional drugs to the use of new drugs, as confirmed by the percentage of patients received. Because the use of new drugs can lead to mental disorders, thought disorders, emotional and behavioral disorders that are not controlled by the person, the social danger is greater, only through medical physical therapy, drug therapy, psychotherapy and other comprehensive treatment to achieve the purpose of complete abstinence from drugs and restore physical health.  Drug addicts are a special category of people, first of all, they are natural persons with basic rights and obligations as citizens, equal to all of us, and have the right to medical treatment. Secondly, they are patients, and the WTO clearly states that drug addiction is a disease, a chronic recurrent encephalopathy characterized by recurrent compulsive drug foraging and drug ingestion behavior, not moral corruption, and that drug addiction is not only a criminal justice problem, but also a public health problem, to which we must give more care and attention.  Drug use is not a crime; our criminal law does not criminalize drug use, only the peripheral behaviors surrounding drug use, such as production, manufacture, sale, transportation, introduction, tolerance, and coercion, etc. A recent study in the United States also showed that “most Americans understand drug use as a public health problem, a disease that requires treatment, not a crime “. Drug users are even less criminals, in a sense they are the biggest victims, and it is all the more important that we give them the best form of treatment to get through the difficult times.