Motivational Interview


A motive is an impulse that causes a person to act. Motivation is an internal process that makes a person move toward a goal. Motivation, like intelligence, can’t be directly observed. Instead, motivation can only be inferred by noting a person’s behavior.
African Americans experience disproportionately higher rates of alcohol and drug addiction (AOD) for their population size. Overwhelmingly, counseling techniques to addiction intervention are generic and a one-size-fits-all approach. It has been suggested that culturally appropriate interventions targeted to specific racial/ethnic groups are needed. The purpose of this article is to discuss cultural considerations in the adaptation of motivational interviewing and motivational enhancement therapy in addiction treatment for African Americans with the intent of emphasizing the importance of cultural sensitivity and competence in therapy.
Alcohol and drug addiction are complex disorders characterized by intense and, at times uncontrollable alcohol and drug craving, along with compulsive substance seeking and use that persist even in the face of devastating consequences. It is important to remember that no single treatment approach is appropriate for all individuals. Finding the right approach involves careful consideration of such things as setting, length of care, philosophical approach, needs of the individual and the family, generational difference, and cultural and worldviews. The following sections discuss the implications of the application of Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and motivational interviewing (MI) and motivational enhancement therapy (MET) with African Americans with AOD addiction.

The above Article originally got published at SciFed Journal of Addiction and Therapy  in 2017, to have a glance please visit: Click Here
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Porn Addiction on Global Population


Addiction Therapy can be simply defined as Restoring once from his Addictions. SciFedJournal of Addiction Therapy mainly focuses on all innovative themes belonging to Alcohol Addiction, Depression, Developing Drugs, Drug Abuse, Drug Dependence, Drug Metabolism, Epidemiology, Mental Disorders, Sleep Disorders , Stress Disorders, etc.,

Addiction is a chronic disease which alters the functioning of the brain and body, significantly; a dangerous habit formation gradually transforms into a ritualistic, compulsive act, and the victim finds it difficult to quit the habit in future. Addiction may be in several forms like Drug Addiction, Smoking, Drinking, Porn, Social networking sites like facebook and Whatsapp etc. Recovering oneself from Addiction stage to his original stage can be simply stated as Addiction Therapy. Recent Studies justifying that Porn Addiction is severe problem slowly navigates across different countries. The present research manuscript firmly focuses on two age groups between 17-25 and 30-50 a questionnaire is performed on the samples to find out how many of them indulge in surfing porn sites regularly, and if yes, then how many times a day, do they do it; average on findings is calculated to conclude that majority of the population groups take interest in browsing pornographic sites in between daily life tasks.

For e.g. these days, most people are addicted to their phones and social-networking sites. We observe this in day to day life in every aspect of human scrolling there mobiles for no reason and checking regularly for texts. Even though they were in a group of people and close friends, they refused to talk and simply looking at their Mobile screens. Another big issue is Porn Watching. Porn Addicts can be identifies with the following symptoms like Depression and guilt for indulging in porn rigorously, Time wastage on porn-site browsing, sometimes, sitting there for the whole day, Drug or alcohol abuse induced by porn videos.

Medically, it has been identified, that pornography triggers a chemical reaction in the brain just like any other substance like drug or alcohol. Watching a porn video, accelerates release of neurotransmitter, dopamine combined with oxytocin, adrenaline, serotonin and endorphins, which gives a sense of initial pleasure. A regular practice of this, enables the porn addict to abuse this usage like any other drug addict does. Porn Addiction can be treated with a methodical approach as is does in case of other addictions like drug or alcohol abuse. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is extremely effective if coupled with other group therapies. It can be alternated with art therapies, or equine therapies to get better results. Sometimes, EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) can be implemented in certain cases by psychiatrists to relax the patient neurologically. Like any other addiction, a commitment from the patient’s side is very important for curing porn addiction too, and it is often induced by his/her counsellor.

The above Article originally got published at SciFed Journalof Addiction Therapy in 2017,To have a glance please visit: Click Here
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Substance Abuse Treatment




About Journal:
Addiction Therapy can be simply defined as Restoring once from his Addictions. Here the SciFed Journal of Addiction Therapy invites the Editorial Board Members Across the world from renowned universities. Addiction therapy covers some of research Areas include Addiction Treatment, Drug Development, Substance-Related Disorders, Porn Addiction, Smoking And Drinking Addiction.
The Editorial Systems framed with Members from universities like University of Nantes France, SUNY- Downstate Medical Center USA, University of Gothenburg Sweden, and Chinese University of Hong Kong China, Cairo University Hospitals Egypt, and University of Siena Italy. The SciFed journal of Addiction Therapy initiated in April 2017.In a short span of time this medical journal Addresses 24 Editorial Board members from countries like USA, France, China, Italy, Portugal, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Albania etc.
These framed Editorial Board Members works in the Challenging Areas like Neuropsychopharmacology, Clinical pharmacology, Stroke mechanisms, and Neurochemical mechanisms, Neuropsychiatry, Drug Abuse, and Toxicological Research. These are Areas now a day’s challenging the world. These are the challenges mainly motivated us to start SciFed journal Addiction Therapy which works as a barrier between the people and research community.
 SciFed Journal of Addiction Therapy is a peer reviewed journal using editorial systems which contains a highly classified reviewing system. Here it encourages Articles entitled in the form of research article, review, mini review, rapid communications, case reports & letter to editors, short communications, image article, videos & graphical presentations and editorials. Once the Article got received then it undergoes originality check by respected Editor in chief and Editorial Board member. If the Article got accepted, here it is supposed to be reviewed by two editorial board members and Two outside reviewers who are working in same area of research under the guidance of editor in chief. In this review process if any comments raised then comments were forwarded to the Author and proper correction to be done.

 SciFed Journal of Addiction Therapy maintains a separate tracking system named Editorial Tracking Systems. In Editorial Tracking Systems both the Editor in chief, Editorial board member, Author and Outside reviewers are connected one to one internally. Whatever the changes done to the Article are simultaneously reported to the Editor in chief, Editorial board member, Author and outside reviewers. Based on the final decision of Editor in chief only the decision of Acceptance or Rejectance take place.
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