Treatment for alcoholics at the INPRF

• April 18, 2024

The alcoholism or is a chronic disease that requires a integral treatment for your control. That is why the National Institute of Psychiatry "Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz" has the Help Center for Alcoholics and their Families (CAAF), who provides medical, psychological and psychiatric care.

Each year about a thousand new patients receive treatment programs that include psychological care, general medicine and psychiatry to address the medical and mental health effects that this disease generates.

Patients who drink alcohol and have withdrawal syndromes that prevent them from achieving suspension of consumption, are offered a short detoxification program of four to six hours.

If they manage to reach abstinence, there are programs focused on prevent relapse and improve their quality of life. They include individual, group, couple and family psychotherapy, with a cognitive behavioral and systemic approach, for specific groups of patients: men, women and adolescents at risk.

The programs last from six to 12 months, with follow-up sessions for two years.

Alcoholism not only affects people who consume alcohol, but it is a disease that affects all members of the family, and even close friends. The CAAF also provides treatment to family members of alcoholics, counseling, group therapy and psychoeducational workshops for adolescent children of alcoholics.

Who wants to go for medical attention should:

• Being 13 years old
• Go voluntarily on business days at 7:15 a.m.
• Carry an official official identification
• If you are a minor, bring a birth certificate and be accompanied by your father, mother or legal guardian.
• Pay in box 63 pesos for the consultation.

Video Medicine: Everything You Wanted to Know about Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Primer for Non-Clinicians (April 2024).