Alternative Treatments for Substance Use Disorder
Some alternative therapies are also used in treatment settings. From (Schuon, 2016) we can see that some of the therapies that are not evidenced based are considered to be holistic in nature and are referred to as complementary and alternative. These therapies can include equine therapy with the use of horses, yoga, and art therapy such as the use of coloring mandalas and painting to relieve stress and anxiety. In addition, experiential adventure-based therapy that uses outdoor activities as metaphor and bio and neurofeedback to help with self-regulation are included in many of the alternative models.
The combination of therapies and medications that are possible are quite numerous and are beyond the scope of this paper. The idea here is that this disorder has a well-informed physiological aspect in additional to psychological and behavioral components. The knowledge of these components should be used to inform treatment so that outcomes can be statistically significant over non treatment. The effects of this disease are devastating and costly (NIDA, 2012). The monetary cost of this disorder is estimated to cost over $600 billion per year. The personal cost is devastating.
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