Reprinted from: Xinhua | 2017-08-09

Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, August 9 (reporter Zhu Han) Reporters learned from the Zhejiang Provincial Drug Rehabilitation Administration on the 9th that up to now, Zhejiang Province has set up VR drug rehabilitation function rooms in four mandatory isolation drug rehabilitation centers, and completed 1,008 effective sample tests. The data show that the system is efficient for the treatment of moderate cravings.Up to 98.1%.

It is understood that the drug addiction assessment and correction system is mainly aimed at meth abuse and addiction. Meth addicts mostly focus on the withdrawal symptoms of mental and behavioral problems after quitting meth, while the virtual reality (VR) drug addiction assessment and correction system targets the psychological dependence of drug addicts on meth. “The right medicine”. It is understood that the evaluation system and the correction course of treatment have built-in short films shot in real-life scenes. The content of one treatment includes reshaping the scene to assess drug addiction, aversion therapy and regression therapy. A set of three short films.

Dr. Wang Yongguang, head of the research and development of the virtual reality (VR) drug addiction assessment and correction system and a distinguished expert from the Zhejiang Provincial Drug Rehabilitation Administration, said that this technology uses a progressive approach to play VR videos. The core is to transform drug addicts' dependence on drugs into disgust and fear of drugs.

“There are three main indicators to measure the effectiveness of this system, namely the accuracy rate of thirst assessment, the effectiveness rate of treatment, and the recovery rate. "Wang Yongguang said that through the comparison and analysis of thousands of sample data, the accuracy rate of the system's prediction of methamphetamine (methamphetamine) craving is 95.9%, the treatment efficiency is 73.6%, and the recovery rate is 37.6%. Among them, the effective rate of treatment for people with mild cravings is 65%, the effective rate of treatment for people with moderate cravings is 98.1%, and the effective rate of treatment for people with severe cravings is 67.3%. The different effective rates are mainly caused by the different tolerance of aversion therapy.

It is understood that in addition to the virtual reality (VR) drug addiction assessment and correction system entering actual operation in drug rehabilitation places in Zhejiang, the system will also be introduced in drug rehabilitation places in Hebei, Henan, Yunnan and many other places. At present, the system is still continuing to develop a targeted curriculum system for different drug users to formulate more personalized comprehensive treatment plans based on differences in addiction levels, sensitivity to treatment content and other factors.