10 key points in family guide; motivating patients for treatment entry and retention

research has shown that quality of life of substance user’s family members adversely damages. the cause of this damage is ongoing conflicts or daily stresses related to constant drug abuse at home. examples of such stressors include: financial problems, verbal and physical aggressions of the addict member, social embarrassment of family members, relationship problems of the family, and destructive relations with the children of the family. above mentioned risk factors negatively affect self-esteem, develop depression and anxiety symptoms and physical problems in the family. hence, in many families, the first priority is still trying to help the addict member who refuses to get treated, enroll in a treatment program. in such circumstances, method of “social reinforcement and family training” is used to encourage patients for enrolling to treatment programs. this method helps changing attitude towards patients to ultimately enroll him in treatment setting. also, such treatment recommendations are helpful for lower drug consume and improving their quality of lives. in short, i will discuss in this article how by this method you learn not to struggle with the patient and instead, reinforce him because of not consuming drugs, and there would be no reinforcements in case of lapse, so that drug abuse reduces accordingly.