{"id":5933,"count":1,"description":"Today, the subject of the Google doodle, Herbert Kleber was an American psychiatrist who played a leading role in changing his attitude toward addiction and treatment.\n\nAfter completing a medical degree in 1964, Kleber worked for two years at the National Prison Hospital in Kentucky, where thousands of drug users were imprisoned. They were forced to \u201coccupational therapy,\u201d some of which were group therapy, and very few of them received individual therapy.\n\nKleber recognized the limitations of this approach. Within 3 months of leaving the facility, 9 of 10 patients relapsed. \"I found that the technology used for the treatment was not very effective and a new approach to treatment is urgently needed,\" he later said in an interview.\n\nAddiction at the time did not attract the attention of the researchers. Kleber installed a dedicated drug-dependent device at Yale University, Connecticut, and played an important role in promoting evidence-based treatment. He pioneered new approaches such as community-based therapy and methadone maintenance therapy for heroin addicts.\n\nMethadone is an oral opioid that is usually prescribed to opioid addicts as a step for taking the drug. Helps you spend the day without cravings or withdrawal symptoms.\n\nRead more: Are you addicted? Truth indulging in games, sex or porn\nIn 1989, Kleber became deputy director of the White House National Drug Administration Policy Bureau. The Ronald Reagan government condemned methadone, but Clever helped get support for policy and support education and prevention programs.\n\nNevertheless, he left two and a half years later and was frustrated that the government was still spending billions of dollars to addict instead of treating addicts.\n\nCo-founded Joseph Califano with the National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in New York. There he continued to lead research on evidence-based treatment and prevention and the elimination of stigma of addiction.\n\nKleber died of a heart attack at the age of 84 in 2018. \u201cHerb Kleber not only helps individual patients suffering from drug use disorders, but also gives parents and professionals these deadly diseases and the most effective prevention and treatment,\u201d Califano said. Said.","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/category\/google-doodle-dr-herbert-kleber\/","name":"Google Doodle Dr Herbert Kleber","slug":"google-doodle-dr-herbert-kleber","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}