Network for Peer led Drug and Alcohol Prevention

A year-long project has led to a new a definition of 'recovery' for those suffering from mental illness or addiction. The Substance Abuse  and  Mental Health  Services Administration announced its new definition this week: " A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential. " The new definition, which lands somewhere between thoughtful and pithy, is meant to help doctors and policymakers who oversee the fields of mental health and addiction. What's the Big Idea? Along with the new definition, researchers and other mental-health experts clarified four major dimensions that support a life in recovery: Health, home, purpose and community. 'Health' means "overcoming or managing one's disease(s) as well as living in a physically and emotionally healthy way"; 'Home' is a stable and safe place to live; 'Purpose' means "meaningfu

World’s Youth Facing Worsening Jobs Crisis, New UN Report Says   A new report by the United Nations labour agency warns of a youth jobs crisis in both developed and developing countries, with young people aged 15 to 24 finding it increasingly difficult to obtain decent employment and future prospects are dim. The report released on 18 October 2011 in New York.   As it released its Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 Update,” the International Labour Organization (ILO) notes that the recent global economic crisis led to a “substantial” increase in youth unemployment rates, reversing earlier favourable trends over the past decade.   At the peak of the crisis period in 2009, the global youth unemployment rate saw its largest annual increase on record, rising from 11.8 per cent to 12.7 per cent between 2008 and 2009 – an unprecedented increase of 4.5 million unemployed youth worldwide.   The average increase of the pre-crisis period (1997-2007) was less than 100,000 persons per year.

Mr.Ganesh Thapliyal and Mr.Heera Singh Dhami from a peer led drug rehabilitation center the Beginning of a New Life were invited to speak to young members of Pehachaan Radio Club Balbhawan Mandi Village Delhi . Mr.Ganesh and Mr.Heera are  drug free for than a decade recovery and proud of being drug free and believes in total abstinence from all mood altering drug including alcohol. They shared their real life experiences,attitudes  related to their childhood and young age and how they suffered because of drug abuse and what they lost and how they overcome. Sharing with these young people was itself was a new experience for them. Although, they have been conducting similar sharing based  prevention program among college and school going population. This event was organised by Nada India  in  collaboration with Jawahar Balbhawan Mandi on 8th Nov.2011.   They also asserted that harm related to drug and alcohol abuse can be reduced by way of   adopting  comprehensive total abstinence based

Rising consumerism poses challenges Category:   Development ,  Family ,  Freedom ,  Marketing ,  Poverty ,  Prevention ,  Social costs Email Share on Twitter Share on Facebook “I deserve to be different from others . I belong to the new consuming class  because I worked for it. I earned it .  This is a better way to prove my social mobility by having a right (still limited right as per income ) to consume,” says Anil, 30 year old from  Delhi NCR Gurgoan  who working in a Multi National Company. The new class, consuming class, is found among the traditional middle class in India, especially in metropolitan cities.  This is really a market driven new identity  which is built on a happy or unhappy past. People would like to keep this consuming class identity as a sign of success. In a recent  Hindustan Times news paper  article with the headline “The many classes  in the middle” the  writer Rama Bijapurkar  talks about a new class among the middle class, whose essential qualification i

Welcome To Nai Kiran Download Broucher Nai Kiran Society is a not for profit voluntary organization, established in the year 2001 with an objective of providing barrier free rehabilitation services for people living with problem of drug addiction ,education & health care for marginalized sections of the society especially children ,women and senior citizen. Nai Kiran is a Hindi word means New Ray. Please visit www.naikiranindia.com   

Suneel Vatsyayan conducted a personalized mentor cum training program for Dr.Roslee Ahmed  Lecturer Counseling, University Teknologi Malaysia, has successfully participated in mentorship cum training program (19 th .20 th & 21 st July 2011) on drug addiction & sexual behaviour. The purposes of this program is giving theory and practical using the counseling approaches in handling client facing  challenges like drug addiction and its related issues  sexual behavior, relapse ,rehabilitation etc..  Dr.Roslee Ahmed also visited Peer led Nai Kiran De-addiction center Narela. Mr.Vatsyayan is a consultant and trainer to Bharat Bhushan  and Naikiran Society. Bharat Bhushan Nai Kiran ,Suneel Vatsyayan and  Dr.Roslee (from left to right) 

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Nada India in collaboration with Nai Kiran Peer led program at Mundka  organised successfully NADA Acudetox  Camp for well-being . Dr.Vikram gave talk on health  issues among elderly population living in urbanized villages of Delhi. Health check up was conducted by Dr.Vikram and Acudetox was given to more than fifteen senior citizens. Senior citizens also visited Nai Kiran Peer led De-addiction Center in Narela village.The purpose of the visit was community participation in  treatment and rehabilitation of  drug users from the village.  All of them appreciated the efforts of Nai Kiran and Nada India  in bringing back the smile on the faces of thousands drug users and their family members. All the elderly people shared their interest in volunteering for this cause in future too.      All is not well with for the aged  as per TOI reports  ......."Lack of awareness about human rights among the aged is one of the major reasons of ever-increasing cases of violation of the rights of

 Twenty Senior Citizens of Mundka Village visited Peer led NaiKiran De-addiction Center Narela 23rd March. These senior citizens are undergoing Computer Training program organised by National Institute of Social Defence in collaboration with Nada India Foundation at Nai Kiran computer training center from 17th March-9th April 2011. Urbanized villages like Narela,Mundka Bakarwala ,Nazafgarh are few of the villages affected by use of legal drug like alcohol and smack etc. These senior citizens feel concerned about  rise in use of alcohol and drugs  and praised  the efforts of Nai kiran in rehabilitating and organizing prevention efforts in this regards.   Mr.Suneel Vatsyayan, Chairperson of Nada India   said that Pehchaan (Identity), a program of Nada India is an effort to help senior citizens and adolescents to build on their identity by engaging them in computer learning, radio club activities and community development process .   

Mrs.Razia Central Jail Vadodara  Thanks for your kind words ,We are impressed with your commitment , we will come back ,We also appreciate your concerns .Please do continue to use ear acupuncture  among women and magnetic beads for children  All the best from Nada India team 

NADA Ear acupuncture session in progress Suneel Vatsyayan talked about importance of barrier free rehabilitation services  Ms.Helena speaking on this  occasio n Bharat Bhushan peer leader speaking on this occassion  Feedback session Dr.Ajay NADA ADS trainer conducted a training workshop for physicians attending peer led rehabilitation centers like Naikiran Narela ,Kirari in Delhi and Nai Disha and Dr.Rathi from Harayana Haryana .The workshop was oragnaised by Nai Kiran and Nada India . Ms.Helena  Schouenborg NADA ADS from US. She also visited ear acupuncture based program in Delhi Prisons Tihar. A NADA ear acupuncture session was also oranised for patients and heads of peer led treatment centers.