Abstract

Drug addiction is considered one of the most important diseases and health problems that negatively affect the psychological and mental health of individuals. This addiction can be recovered from through the use of appropriate means of support, such as treatment with creative or expressive arts, which is represented by music therapy, plastic arts, and drama. The historical analytical approach was used in this research study, by conducting a detailed search in the literature using basic databases such as the World Health Organization mental health database (PubMed), Scopus, Science Direct, and Google (Scopus). The goal was to identify the effectiveness of using creative arts therapy and classify it in terms of the strongest and most important effect, in addition to identifying the most important ways in which it can be combined by employing the current science of neurotherapy for addiction. The published literature on the use of art therapy was also considered With drug addicts, using a review of the drug abuse literature as a basis by identifying key theoretical concepts, the mixed findings of different studies were examined and concluded.