Shanghai launches VR detoxification, eye-movement data help scientific drug addiction review

Recently, Song Weidong, deputy director of the Shanghai Bureau of Drug Addiction Treatment, presided over the launch of the New Technology Symposium on Cognitive Function Rehabilitation and the virtual reality detoxification project in Shanghai. Wu Shaohua, director of the Judicial Bureau of Shanghai Judicial Bureau for Detoxification and Correction Work, addressed the meeting and affirmed the new attempt of virtual reality drug addiction. He said that this is another major move in the development of Shanghai's scientific and professional drug rehabilitation. According to VR Network, the Virtual Reality Drug Addiction Assessment and Rehabilitation Training System displayed by the Shanghai Municipal Drug Addiction Administration Bureau, Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science of East China Normal University and Shanghai Youth Research Technology Co., Ltd. The results of the cooperative research and development, using high-performance immersive VR helmets, built-in high-precision eye tracking system, and the combination of physiological multi-diameter, drug addiction diagnosis and cognitive rehabilitation module for drug addiction management work. According to Professor Zhao Min, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Mental Health Center, “For people who are forced to quarantine detoxification, you ask him if he wants to suck. He certainly does not want to smoke and he can control—so how to scientifically evaluate drug users? The degree of craving is the biggest problem for drug rehabilitation.” In fact, once you enter a detoxification center that is isolated from the outside world, after a period of professional guidance and training for detoxification, drug addicts may temporarily leave the drugs behind. Pictures of drugs or drugs resembling salt may not seem to arouse heart addiction, but this is only a pseudo abstinence state. Lv Zhaohui, Party Secretary and Director of Shanghai Gaojing Addiction Treatment Center, introduced: “The biggest breakthrough of this technology is to solve the problems that other provinces and cities have not solved. That is, the drug addicts in other provinces and cities are not actively cooperating in the drug elimination process. For example, Some drug addicts will close their eyes during the VR experience. The corresponding data will not be collected, and our system will solve this problem and ensure the authenticity of effectiveness." The panoramic video based on virtual reality technology can highly restore scenes of high drug use, such as KTV, hotels, and families, so as to induce drug hunger for drug addicts, and pioneered the tracking of patented technology for eye tracking. The eye-moving fixations and gaze duration during the roaming of virtual reality scenes of drugs, drug addicts and ordinary objects through the eyes, the window of the soul, truly reflect the drug users' desire for drugs and their quantitative assessment. Compared with traditional measurement methods, virtual reality scenes are more immersive and can avoid “laboratory effects” and obtain more realistic test conditions. In the live experience session, reporters found that only by using this drug addiction assessment system for a few minutes, the system can generate objective and effective drug addiction assessment reports based on eye movement and physiological data. Through the sampling test and statistical analysis of the experimental group and the control group, it was found that when the drug addicts and non-drug abusers watched drug-related VR videos, there was a clear preference difference between the eye movement heat map and physiological data. “Foreign research shows that new synthetic drugs can cause brain damage, affecting at least the four circuits of the brain, including the cerebral cortex, control circuits, motivational circuits, and reward and memory circuits,” Professor Zhao Min believes, “accurate assessment is only the first step, Knowledge and rehabilitation need to be integrated.” In response to this, the VR drug addiction rehabilitation function provided by the Virtual Reality Drug Addiction Assessment and Rehabilitation Training System includes three modules: “aversion-cognitive-recovery-regression”. VR drug addiction rehabilitation function 1: aversion treatment First of all, aversion treatment is aimed at the drug addicts' heart addiction. VR technology is used to assist the traditional "disgusting therapy", and the pathological memory in the memory of drug addicts that brings pleasure after taking drugs is changed to induce drug in virtual reality scenes. Immediately after the addiction, the severe consequences of drug use are demonstrated. In the course of multiple courses of training, the drug addicts are set up to create new associative memories between the drugs and the disgusting negative scenes. VR Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Function II: Cognitive Rehabilitation The second cognitive rehabilitation is to reduce the cognitive and processing capacity of new synthetic drugs, and provide safe and controlled stimulation environments for interactive task training. By training games in virtual reality, you can subconsciously improve the concentration and self-control ability of drug addicts. For example, the gait balance beam training for balance force that is implemented in Shanghai's high-level compulsory isolation detoxification center can achieve a safer and more stimulating experience through height and difficulty in VR, so that the detoxification personnel can get better cognitive rehabilitation. Training effect. VR Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Function III: Regression Adaptation The last third is to end with regression adaptation, that is, to create a warm, harmonious family and social atmosphere for drug addicts through highly simulated families and social virtual scenes, to ease the emotional distress of drug addicts, and to evoke the desire of drug addicts for family and social life. And in the VR scene through the eyes, handles and other interaction with the outside world. In the process of long-term closed drug treatment, through the love of natural foods and all other good things, help detoxification personnel enhance their confidence and willpower to adhere to treatment. The combination of virtual reality technology with eye-movement technology and electrophysiology technology for the compulsory isolation of drug addiction assessment and cognitive rehabilitation training for drug addicts is a breakthrough innovation of the Shanghai Drug Addiction Administration in the field of drug addiction. It is believed that it will also be a drug addiction treatment. People's better cessation of drug addiction brings more help and brings more benefits to the family and society of drug addicts.