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[A metaphor of the nurse's work in addictology]
Luisella Congiu-Mertel1, Daniele Fabio Zullino
1Département de santé mentale et psychiatrie, hôpitaux universitaires de Genève, Suisse. luisella.congiumertel@hcuge.ch
Abstract:
The mechanism of addiction can be compared to a rut in a road, towards which patients are attracted and into which they inevitably fall. The role of the nurse in addictology is to lead the patient to consider other roads, to tread a new path taking them in a more positive direction. It is on this condition that programmes based on substitution can prove effective.
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