International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience
Open Access

Abstract

Substance use disorders interfere with daily-life activities and treated with psychological and pharmacological treatments. Psychopharmacology and psychotherapy for their high rates of failure to meaningfully improve outcomes, saying it's time to figure out how to develop "the next generation of interventions." A new route map has been drawn for the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric diseases. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)'s call for a more rigorous and evidence-driven approach to mental health care. It is time that psychiatry moves away from its present focus on medications and takes a new direction that uses other modalities of care evidence-based psychotherapies. Psychiatry and psychology are the only specialties that don't actually look at the organ it treats. Patients deserve better. We need to devote our self to the efficient evidence-based diagnosis of disorders and personalized treatments. After more than 70 percent of alcohol and drug users have completed medical treatment, they are beginning to use alcohol and drugs again a few months later. The success rate of treatment with classical methods (drugs, psychotherapy and AMATEM) is 20-44%. Sixty percent of heroin addicts go back to heroin and eighty percent of cocaine addicts go back to cocaine after treatment. Eighty-seven percent of them use cannabis instead of using psychiatric medication used in treatment. New methods of treatment are necessary and neuro-feedback (NF) is one treatment that seems to be effective in psychiatric disorders. I am going to talk about the evidence supporting neuro-feedback for substance use disorders.

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