FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: method involves making a patient familiar with suggestion text containing information concerning causes and mechanisms of drug addiction development and the ways for treating it. The text gives highly detailed symptoms occurrence sequence description depending on drug addiction stage in the volume enough for a patient to comprehend clinical specific of the own state, bring to consciousness fatal outcome of drug addiction and evaluate his own readiness to undergo treatment. Motivation level being high enough and the patient coming to receive treatment, an individual treatment session is given showing psychotherapeutic information semantically repeating the suggestion text but transmitted as audio-visual aids containing pictures and music. Curative suggestion is periodically applied in the course of treatment. Acupuncture needles are applied at the final part of session first in He-gu, Zu-san-li, Kun-lun, Zu-lin-ci, Yin-tang, Dui-duan, Ren-zhong points and then, 7-10 min later, additional needles are set into Shen-men and Qui-qi points. The patient is introduced into meditation state on this background and repeated suggestion treatment is applied via headphones by means of phonogram during 25-30 min. The total treatment course is 3-4 sessions long. The sessions are conducted with pauses between them gradually increased.
EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment.
7 cl, 1 tbl
