Pharmacotherapy of opiate addiction in Unani medicine

Drug addiction has now become a serious worldwide socio-medical problem. The uses of drugs are more common in our society. Despite massive media campaigns designed to educate the public about the danger of drug addiction, the absolute number of opiate-addicts are increasing day by day. The solution of drug addiction in Unani medicine takes into account the religious, spiritual, moral and social factors, while the Western medicine did not recognize it as a holistic disorder. Therefore, the Western medicine has failed to see it as a coherent phenomenon and hence does not possess any specific and comprehensive pharmaco therapy. The present paper describes the pharmaco therapy of opiate addiction and literature survey on single and compound drugs of Unani medicine employed to cure opiate addiction