**7. Conclusion**

In order to globally address the consumption of psychoactive substances, the clinical history is the indispensable information tool that will establish the meeting

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point with precision and the scientific, ethical, technological criteria that will be included in it, through their participation in its preparation between the different health professionals [61]. The integration will generate a unique file resulting in comprehensive management and attention, which serves as an effective communication meeting point for the treatment and evolution of the disciplines that converge, as well as the homogenization of decision-making subsequent to the diagnosis established by the consumption of legal and illegal substances, and will influence with good practices on the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, of the "drug" abusers and achieve healthy lifestyles, with the priority of enriching his/her quality of life, decreasing the risks, as well as motivating the user as far as possible to eradicate substance abuse through techniques for restructuring his/her beliefs, behaviors and emotions. Besides, the health professional will accept, in a more committed way, that the consumer may feel worried about his/her health even if he/she

Finally, the first thing to conceive in the field of health, what we have been working on for decades, is to state that the harm reduction intervention focuses on the tertiary prevention framework, which is carried out once the problem has appeared and its objective is to avoid complications, reducing risks [62], transcending in the general improvement of patients (adherence to treatment/self-efficacy, self-care) and increasing their physical and psychological recovery by encouraging abstinence and preventing relapses; reaching an approach that achieves the integral health of the users with interdisciplinary interventions, reducing the cost and increasing the benefit for the hospital users and their families, as well as for the psychological institution, reducing the cost and increasing the benefit for the

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point with precision and the scientific, ethical, technological criteria that will be included in it, through their participation in its preparation between the different health professionals [61]. The integration will generate a unique file resulting in comprehensive management and attention, which serves as an effective communication meeting point for the treatment and evolution of the disciplines that converge, as well as the homogenization of decision-making subsequent to the diagnosis established by the consumption of legal and illegal substances, and will influence with good practices on the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, of the "drug" abusers and achieve healthy lifestyles, with the priority of enriching his/her quality of life, decreasing the risks, as well as motivating the user as far as possible to eradicate substance abuse through techniques for restructuring his/her beliefs, behaviors and emotions. Besides, the health professional will accept, in a more committed way, that the consumer may feel worried about his/her health even if he/she does not succeed or does not want to stop its consumption.

Finally, the first thing to conceive in the field of health, what we have been working on for decades, is to state that the harm reduction intervention focuses on the tertiary prevention framework, which is carried out once the problem has appeared and its objective is to avoid complications, reducing risks [62], transcending in the general improvement of patients (adherence to treatment/self-efficacy, self-care) and increasing their physical and psychological recovery by encouraging abstinence and preventing relapses; reaching an approach that achieves the integral health of the users with interdisciplinary interventions, reducing the cost and increasing the benefit for the hospital users and their families, as well as for the psychological institution, reducing the cost and increasing the benefit for the hospital users and their families as well as for the institution.
