Addiction is the total dependence of a human on the psycho active or chemical substances. Drug addiction is due to the continuous consumption of drugs. This caused many negative physiological and psychological effects. There are many types of treatments available for drug addiction, among them one is, therapy treatment.

Following are the benefits of the drug addiction therapy:

Safety:
Undergoing drug addiction therapy is safe because it occurs in controlled and therapeutic environment with the presence of a licensed mental health professional.

Cognitive behavioral therapy:
In cognitive behavioral therapy addicts learns how to pinpoint and avoid the situations that cause the desire to use drugs.

Multidimensional family therapy:
This type of the drug addiction therapies helps the drug-abusing adolescents and their families in addressing the issues influencing their drug abuse, besides, these therapies also helps to improve family functioning.

Motivation:
Motivational incentives are the rewards to the addicts who have successfully completed particular achievement in the treatment program such as abstinence. Normally these incentives are in the form of vouchers or coupons.

Along with the above mentioned benefits drug addiction therapy also helps the patient participate in the treatment process, change his perception and behavior towards drug abuse. This type of treatment also helps the patient to increase his coping skills. Behavioral therapies also increases the usefulness of the medications and assist patients in staying longer in treatment.