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How Counselling and Behaviour
Modification Helps In Curing the
Desire for Drugs
Cognitive therapy is aimed at providing help to a fentanyl addict in the
recovery phase with changing his/her thought patterns, which are associated
with fentanyl abuse with improvement in the thinking process. It alters the
previous intentions of the patient to avoid a persistent problem with the use of
fentanyl and teaches the patient to identify the possibilities for handling these
problems by facing them and using internal strength to come up with a
positive solution instead of taking life-threatening escape with drug abuse. This
results in making patient accept the fact that getting back to fentanyl use will
make his/her problems even worse.
Behavioural modification is another therapy, which is intended to substitute
drugs misuse with healthy activities. In some cases, a patient turns to abuse of
drugs such as fentanyl to experience the state of euphoria for the reason that
there is an absence of any exciting activities, which can produce and
maintain healthy levels of endorphins in the body. That is why most of the
experts recommend physical activities to treat the addiction to fentanyl.
Residential rehabilitation centers provide the patients with gym and sports
training facilities and other recreational programs in order to assist patients to
develop healthy habits.