Resources for pharmacotherapies
The tasks for this 3rd topic are...
- To look at Effective Interventions and understand how pharmacotherapies complement psycho-social interventions.
- To see the typical stages of a treatment plan.
- To debate the motion: ‘Drug consumption rooms should be available to everybody with an addiction problem’.
- Finally, discussion with your study group or mentor about what it is that enables practitioners to build a working alliance.
Resources for the Pharmacotherapies topic
If you have already done the Psycho-social Interventions module you will have visited this page. There are some general principles to be sure about...
- Note that harm reduction strategies, which may be pharmacological, are relevant at all stages of treatment.
- Understand the meaning of recovery.
- Watch the Prof Rudi Moos video on outcome predictors.
- Note the components that treatment may contain.
- Note the common psycho-social interventions and think about how pharmacotherapies complement these.
This link will take you to ▶︎ Effective Interventions
Now have a look at the treatments for different classes of drugs with particular reference to pharmacotherapies. Take note of the drug effects, harm reduction strategies, and prescribing options...
For alcohol treatments be sure to go to the Relapse Prevention Medication Prescribing page and understand that these medications are primarily psychological interventions mediated through medication...
This link will take you to ▶︎ Alcohol Treatment
This link will take you to ▶︎ Opioid Treatment
This link will take you to ▶︎ StimulantTreatment
This link will take you to ▶︎ Cannabis Treatment
This link will take you to ▶︎ Psychedelics Treatment
When you are happy that you have done this task move on to record your Reflections