Network for Peer led Drug and Alcohol Prevention

Educate 500 families living with alcohol use & NCD "At the age of 17 years, Mahesh has given up his schooling to work as a salesman." Alcohol violence in the family is forcing a lot of children to join work force. We target to sensitize 500 children about the issue of alcoholism and NCDs & encourage them to continue their education. Uma's troubles became worse when her husband started using alcohol and abuse became an everyday affair. We intend to counsel, heal 240 women survivors of violence to seek help and to live healthy & productive life.    Challenge Worldwide, 3 million deaths every year result from harmful use of alcohol. It can lead to a range of mental, behavioural and other non-communicable conditions (NCDs). The harmful use of alcohol also brings significant social and economic losses to individuals and society at large. The recovering addicts and their families are usually not aware of NCDs and its relation with their alcohol and drug ...

Draft:  “Delhi Substance use Disorder Treatment, Counseling and Rehabilitation Centres rules,2018 by Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Health and Family Welfare Department) Comments and Observations by  Suneel Vatsyayan ,   Executive board member of  National Association ofProfessional Social workers in India ,  http://napswi.org/ Founding board member,Healthy India Alliance  .Chairperson,  Nada India Foundation www.nadaindia.info   General comments The proposed rules are long awaited and state intervention was certainly required to respond to the demand of the drug and alcohol in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. The framing of these rules will help NGOs to contribute in the task of Government making Delhi healthy and drug free. There have been various initiatives by volunteers (recovering addicts) addressing the problem of drug and bridging the gap in service delivery at community level in the last three decades. The a...

एक्यूपंचर की मदद से छूट सकती है शराब प्रियंका पांडेय पाडलीकर  Updated Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:30 AM IST शराब एक ऐसी लत है जिसे छुड़ाने के लिए सिर्फ चिकित्सकीय इलाज काफी नहीं है। परिवार और समाज का सहयोग, सही परामर्श, चिकित्सकीय उपचार के साथ-साथ नशे की लत से मुक्ति पाने के लिए आज कानों पर एक्यूपंचर थेरेपी का प्रयोग भी बहुत मददगार साबित हो रहा है। वैकल्पिक चिकित्सा के रूप में यह आज काफी प्रचलित और भरोसेमंद चिकित्सा पद्धति मानी जा रही है। अगर आप भी नशामुक्ति के लिए प्रयासरत हैं तो मनोचिकित्सक, एक्यूपंचरिस्ट और सर्टिफाइड एडिक्शनिस्ट और नेशनल एक्यूपंचर डिटॉक्सिफिकेशन एसोसिएशन (नाडा) के संस्थापक व चेयरमैन‌ डॉ. माइकल ओ. स्मिथ से बातचीत के आधार पर जानें इस थेरेपी से नशामुक्ति के बारे में।  कानों में एक्यूपंचर से मिल रही सफलता हमारे देश समते विश्व के कई हिस्सों में नशे से मुक्ति के लिए एक्यूपंचर थेरेपी को प्रभावी वैकल्पिक चिकित्सा का दर्जा मिल चुका है। शराब, अफीम और कोकीन आदि की लत को छुड़ाने के लिए करीब 2,500 कार्यक्रमों में इसकी मदद ले चुकी है। इस थेरेपी में खासतौर पर कानो...

Hi All This research is very important please read and forward to other drug prevention NGO’s. The Audio Slides presentation is also very important the slides details the evidence very clearly. http://audioslides.elsevier. com/getvideo.aspx?doi=10.1016/ j.mrfmmm.2016.05.002   Subject:   University of WA scientists found cannabis alters a person's DNA structure Fact of the week: Cancer risk to kids from cannabis use University of Western Australia found that  cannabis alters a person’s DNA , potentially exposing future generations to serious illnesses such as cancer.  “In my 20 years of research on human cells, I have never found any other drug, including heroin, which comes close to the DNA damage caused by marijuana” – Dr Akira Miroshima. WA researchers have warned that cannabis use causes genetic mutations that can be passed on to children and grandchildren. Chromothripsis and epigenomics complete causality criteria for cannabis- and...

Heady childhood Marijuana addiction is coming out of universities and into schools with children as young as 11 experimenting with it Veenu Sandhu  March 19, 2016 "Doctor, have you tried marijuana?" "No" "Then how do you know it is bad?" Brahmdeep Sindhu, senior psychiatrist at the Civil Hospital in Gurgaon, was stumped when a 14-year-old from a prominent school threw this question at him. "The child then went to great lengths, quoting blogs he had read on the internet, to convince me why he, many of his classmates and some of his juniors, children as young as 12, thought it was harmless, even beneficial, to smoke up." Every month, 15 to 20 new cases of schoolchildren, boys and girls, are brought by their parents to Sindhu for counselling. They are all hooked to cannabis: often marijuana (the leaf of the plant) and sometimes hashish (extracted from the plant's resin). Far away from Gurgaon, in the fields past Navi Mumbai, childre...

A movie presentation by Suneel Vatsyayan Chairperson ,Nada India Foundation at NADA International Conference Oslo Norway on 29th& 30th May 2015 “Making Tools for Hope happen!”    Peer Education: An Indian Experience…A Nada India Presentation  Duration: 11.03 minutes  Transcription of the narration in the movie  The moving  life stories of two Dayanands reveal their  indomitable  courage.  While the first Dayanand, from rural Delhi had a history  of  drug abuse, the second Dayanand was a victim of alcohol. As   recovering  addicts  both had a common mentor- Suneel Vatsyayan    -first in Navjyoti, Delhi Police foundation and later with Nada India.          Both Dayanands had graduated from, what a journalist called- ‘the  university  of pain’ and had faced     social rejection, stigma  and discrimination. They volunteered to become peer support counselors ...