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of motivation of a patient, since it predicts whether consumption will remain the same or will change favorably [58]. To recognize and work on the motivation to change, the Transteoric Change Model and the Motivational Interview formulated by Prochaska and DiClemente [59] stand out in order to identify different levels of predisposition that a person can show -*stages of change*- when it is proposed to modify his/her addictive behavior [60]. Thus, favoring respect for the patient, his/ her beliefs and scale of values, trying to stimulate his/her motivation and favor his/ her positioning towards healthy habits, emphasizing his/her own point of view and his/her freedom to choose. Progressively increasing the willingness to change, becoming aware of the problem and developing the necessary strategies to overcome it, including the skills to overcome contingencies and relapse. To go through the process of motivation to change in a stable and constant way, promoting his/ her level of self-efficacy and allowing him/her to have greater adherence. Besides, by emphasizing the discovery of his/her risk factors we will also work on protective factors, since both have a relevant role during the onset, development, maintenance

*The treatment is directed towards the prevention of physical and psychiatric risk factors through a multidisciplinary intervention with the intervention of psychology, psychiatry and the different medical* 

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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*specialties [47].*

and treatment of addictions [59].

María Angélica Ocampo\*, César Guillermo Popoca, Abraham Sánchez, Catalina Casillas and Raúl Cicero "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga" General Hospital of Mexico, Mexico

\*Address all correspondence to: ccthgmod@yahoo.com.mx; magnetowilde@gmail.com

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