What are the Abstinence-Based approaches?
• What is the Abuse potential of various drugs? • What is Mass communication and vernacular usage? • What is the role of pharmacists in preventing and recognizing prescription drug abuse? • What is the role of patients in preventing and recognizing prescription drug abuse? • What is the treatment of addiction to prescription CNS depressants? • What are the different methods of Drug testing? • What Are the Dangers of Abusing Medications? • What is the approach of public health practitioners towards drug abuse? • How should prescription drugs be disposed off? • What kind of medicine is OxyContin? • Can I take other medicines while I am using OxyContin for pain relief? • How can we reduce the damage caused by drug abuse? • Can I drink an alcoholic beverage while I am using OxyContin for pain relief? • What should I do when I no longer need the OxyContin for pain relief? • Are there any other special precautions I should take with my OxyContin? • What are various risk groups for prescripti
Abstinence-based approaches set as a goal complete abstinence from all addictive substances, including both licit and illicit, prescribed and unprescribed. While the harm-reduction approach has been demonstrated to work well with opioids, the abstinence-based approach is the medical community standard of care for sedative (including alcohol) dependence.
