6th International Conference on Addiction Therapy

       The term "psychotropic medication" refers to a broad variety of medicines that impact mental function, behavior, and experience. Feelings of stress, sadness, psychological distress, and/or sleeplessness are generally treated with psychotropic drugs in older persons. A biological imbalance is not really the cause of many emotional and mental health problems. Life events what happens to and around us—often cause and impact psychological difficulties. Medication alone cannot "cure" all psychological difficulties because it does not affect how people interact psychologically to their experiences. Medication alone can be compared to patching up a bullet wound without first removing the bullet. When mental health concerns produce significant impairment in healthy functioning, psychotropic medicines are given to treat them. Psychotropic medications usually function by altering or balancing the levels of neurotransmitters, which are key compounds in the brain. Wh...

  Psychology has played a prominent part in both addiction research and treatment. It is an essential element of the interdisciplinary approach required by the 'biopsychosocial' conception. Cognitive theory-based, psychodynamic , and transtheoretical methods are the three primary categories of applied psychology in the field of addictions. This contribution contains brief summaries of the most common models. The Dynamic Model of Relapse from the learning theory field and the PRIME theory of motivation from the transtheoretical area are two important recent breakthroughs in addiction psychology. Both of these developments are deviations from conventional models' linear two-dimensional perspective in favour of multidimensional non-linear models that use theories like chaos theory and catastrophe theory in the modelling process. These techniques are similar to those used to describe and anticipate complicated phenomena like weather patterns in terms of explanations and pred...