A new approach: developing medical treatment for addiction

Drugs and addictive forms of behaviour have a direct effect on the brain and modify it, sometimes irreversibly. The latter cannot spontaneously return to the way it functioned prior to addiction without efficient medical and pharmacological assistance. Before we can understand what pushes a patient to use substances or submit to addictive behaviour, we need to give medical treatment. Seek the damage caused by dependency on the brain and how these malfunctions can be repaired. To help our patients, we need to act, prescribe, intervene and treat.

Addictive eating disorder treatment unit

Some eating disorders can be examined in light of addictive phenomena, notably serious obesity, with bulimia and anorexia with chronic vomiting. The Eating Disorder and Obesity Treatment Unit was opened in the autumn of 2005, headed by a nutritionist: Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen.

Patients hospitalised in this department will be treated and monitored by the Montevideo Clinic medical team, psychologists and coaches/leaders. They will receive specific, tailored assistance and support.