Review of Factors Affecting Remission in Narcological Patients

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Achievement of a sustained remission in patients with substance dependence syndrome is the main criterion of the quality of narcological treatment and a priority treatment task. The article presents a review of factors that influence remission in patients with mental and behavioral disorders resulting from use of psychoactive substances. Studies performed in the recent 15 years, consider the main five groups of factors for development and failure of remission: biological (gender, age, genetic parameters, organic lesions of the brain, etc.), narcological (course of the disease, age at the first use of a drug), personality and pathopsychological (cognitive disorders, comorbid mental disorders, mental trauma, etc.), social (employment, family and social situation, social support, etc.) and therapeutic factors (duration and methods of treatment, therapeutic alliance, etc.)..

CONCLUSION: There are basic factors of favorable prognosis of the course of narcological diseases that are confirmed from study to study: late onset of the disease, absence of a comorbid dependence syndrome and of a severe mental disorder, involvement in long-term treatment and rehabilitation programs that continue after remission.

Keywords

narcological diseases / sustained remission / failure / relapse / factors

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