Evaluating and Prioritizing Addiction Treatment Methods through the TOPSIS Technique

This paper aims at evaluating and selecting the most suitable detoxification method among the following four symptom method, replacement method, rapid opiate detoxification and ultra-rapid opiate detoxification. Thirty experts considered the four detoxification methods and rated the 7 criteria on a 1-9 scale -basis. Then, after making a decision-making matrix, the four methods were prioritized and the best was chosen through the next six-stages of the TOPSIS technique. The replacement method was closer to positive criteria and more distant from negative ones in compare with other methods (Ci =0.653446). According to these findings, the replacement method turned out to be the most suitable method of detoxification.