METHOD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHYSICAL REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL ADAPTATION IN DESOMORPHINE ADDICTION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, particularly addictology, psychotherapy, correction and medical psychology. The rehabilitation is four-staged. At the first stage, a drug-addicted person is informed on the necessity of psychological, physical rehabilitation and social adaptation; and a rehabilitation group is formed of 6-10 individuals signed the informed consent. At the second stage, the formed group undergoes an excursion lesson in animal shelters and centres; at a later stage, the individual undergoes further lessons in the animal shelter or centre according to the positive attitude to a specific animals - dogs, cats, or horses. The third stage involves animal care work, including feeding, sanitary and hygiene procedures, cleaning of grounds and animal's place, furniture repair, regular walks with graduated physical exercises of increasing length, monitoring, training, progress and animal's behaviour report to the shelter or centre's staff, group and psychotherapist. At the first stage, the individual keeps caring of the animal and provides managing it domiciliary and commit himself to return the animal to the shelter or centre in case of a recurrence and repeated use of the narcotic substance.

EFFECT: prevention of narcotic substance consumption, training of new working practices and adequate attitudes, involvement into the effective pace of living.

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