This is a compilation of programmes and schemes being implemented by various ministries and departments for the rehabilitation of drug and alcohol dependants.
This compilation provides information on schemes available for empowering and rehabilitating different sections of society including women, children and youth who are victims of drug abuse and alcoholism.
It also provides information about UN agencies involved in the field.
2] Community Based Drug Rehabilitation
urugan, a weaver, was admitted for treatment to a deaddiction centre. He was unable to sleep without his nightly ration of alcohol. Despite his mounting problems, he continued to use alcohol. He became irregular at work and his wife had to take up the responsibility of weaving. Their son dropped out of school to help his mother. Murugan became steeped in debt because of his drinking. The family was virtually starving. Yet Murugan’s drinking continued.
He mortgaged the silk thread given to him for weaving and even sold his wife’s mangalsutra (sacred marriage thread) to buy alcohol.
The story of countless such Murugans is repeated all over India. Many such persons with drug and alcohol addiction are treated in de-addiction centres throughout the country. Of these, seventeen NGOs and one governmental institution participated in the Community Based Rehabilitation Project. read more…
3] A field guide for service providers and trainers
Chapter 1
Drugs-Short and Long Term Effects and Withdrawal SymptomsDrugs-Short and Long Term Effects and Withdrawal Symptoms-Information Section
Chapter 2
Indicators of Addiction-Signs and SymptomsIndicators of Addiction-Signs and Symptoms-Information Section
Chapter 3
Medical and Psychiatric ComplicationsMedical and Psychiatric Complications-Information Section
Chapter 4
Addiction in Various SettingsAddiction In Various Settings-Information Section
Chapter 5
Motivation and Intervention StrategiesMotivation and Intervention Strategies-Information Section
Chapter 6
Counseling for MotivationCounseling For Motivation-Information Section
Skill Sharpening Tools-Motivational Statements
Chapter 7
Recognizing the AddictRecognizing the Addict- The Role of the Family
Skill Sharpening Tools-Guidelines For the Family
4] Featured Publications
Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction
Provides scientific information about the disease of drug addiction, including the many harmful consequences of drug abuse and the basic approaches that have been developed to prevent and treat the disease.
Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment:A Research-Based Guide
Provides research-based information about addiction, drug treatment, and recovery for new patients undergoing treatment for addiction, and for their friends and families.
Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment for Criminal Justice Populations
NIDA's research-based guide for treating drug abusers within criminal justice settings. Provides 13 essential treatment principles, and includes answers to frequently asked questions, and resource information.
Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents:A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and
Community Leaders
The 16 fundamental prevention principles are outlined, Discussions include key factors that place youth at risk for drug abuse, gudiance for planning drug abuse prevention programs in the community, applying the prevention principles to programs, and describing the core elements of effective prevention programs.
NIDA Research Report Series: Comorbidity:Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses
Comorbidity is a topic that stakeholders–– patients, family members, health care professionals, and others––frequently ask about. It is also a topic about which we have insufficient information, and so it remains a research priority for NIDA. This Research Report provides information on the state of the science in this area.
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Most Popular Publications
Marijuana: Facts for TeensProvides teens with answers to frequently asked questions about marijuana,including what it is, who uses it, how it affects a person physically and mentally after short- and long-term use.
Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to KnowCurrent scientific information for parents.
NIDA Research Report: Prescription Drugs Abuse and AddictionDescribes the dangers of prescription drug abuse and reviews research in this area. Offers approaches for patients and providers to help them avoid the misuse of prescription drugs
NIDA Research Report: Methamphetamine:Abuse and Addiction
Details of methamphetamine's effects, and the scope of abuse in the United States, how the drug is used and how it differs from other stimulants. Describes medical complications of abuse and current effective treatments
NIDA Research Report: Tobacco AddictionPresents current epidemiological research data regarding nicotine use, reports on the medical consequences of use. Emphasizes the effects on the brain as well as current research findings about use during pregnancy. Includes treatment approaches.
Mind Over MatterThis series is designed to encourage young people in grades five through nine to learn about the effects of drug abuse on the body and the brain.
5] HIV & Development Programme
njecting drug use (IDU) is well known as a way to spread HIV, as are ways to prevent HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs). But the growing number of developing countries experiencing new and uncontrolled HIV spread among drug users demonstrates that many communities currently lack the capacity to control these epidemics.
Economic, political and social changes are compounding this situation and increasing peoples’ susceptibility and vulnerability. Fear, denial and discrimination are also making HIV prevention among injecting drug users a low national and global priority, despite the huge threat this problem poses to development.
A growing number of countries urgently need assistance to develop the policies, strategies and programmes required to deal adequately with this significant development problem. What is lacking most is an understanding of the particular challenges that injecting drug use and HIV pose for achieving sustainable human development (Brown, 1999). read more…
6] UNODC produces a broad range of publications in our areas of work.
All documents are in pdf format, unless otherwise specified.
UN Publications
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| World Drug Report | Crime and Drug Survey | Bulletin on Narcotics |
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7] Patients who Drink
- How can Doctors help?
Alcohol use scenario in India
Steady increase in alcohol consumption and reduction in age of first alcohol use
Most Indians do not drink, but those who drink, drink frequently and heavily
Awareness about harm associated with alcohol is low read more…
8] Alcoholics Anonymous
Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
9] From the May 2010 issue of AA Grapevine
It's not the shoelace
An AA sees that time in the program doesn't make him immune to negative emotions
Recently, my home group conducted a workshop exploring emotional sobriety. We broke it up into different aspects such as "What is emotional sobriety?" "How does it differ from physical sobriety?" etc. My assignment was to explore: "Why we need emotional sobriety," and I presented it as follows: When I first came to AA my emotions rose to the surface, where I became aware of them. While I thought that I had successfully submerged them with alcohol when I was drinking, I can't deny that I often drank at "him," "her," "Mom," "Dad," the boss, some unfair customer, a disrespectful sales clerk, the police, the system or whatever. I could say that alcohol let me not feel, but the truth is that I felt everything and often wanted to show "them." Read more >
Story of the Day: Big-shot-itis
JESS WAS a real big shot in his drinking days. He always drove the finest cars (which he usually wrecked); he held the best jobs (which he usually lost); and he always went to the best places and threw the money around. After some years of drinking, his cars weren't so fancy, and the jobs weren't so good, and the money was not quite so easy to come by. But Jess never lost his big-shot-itis. Read more >
Step Five:
I HAVE NOW been sober for four years, as a direct result of the recovery program of AA. I arrived at this program only through the grace of God. The outside situations in my life were not indicative of the inner destruction that was killing me. My job, car, and house did not reflect my self-hatred, self-pity, depression, anger, pain, or desperate loneliness. My crowd of "friends" that attended social events with me did not reflect the absence of love in my life or the emptiness that I felt. My life was in perfect order on the outside, and the inner person was on the verge of death from the fatal disease of alcoholism. I had spent my whole life focusing on people, places, and things, while alcoholism slowly and powerfully consumed my inner self. Read more >
Tradition Five:
ON MY FOURTH sober AA day, I was sitting alone in one of our musty old meeting rooms, very sad and very broke. All the AAs had seemed very kind in their desire to help, but none of them had mentioned money. And, like thousands of other new members, I believed my biggest problems were financial. Yet not one person had offered a loan. Then, suddenly, one of those big, handsome, gray-templed, well-dressed old-timers strode in with a friendly smile widening his face. He stuck out his hand and squeezed mine. "If I can help you any way at all, just say so, and I'll do it!" he declared heartily. Read more >
10] Recovery Literature in English (US)
Books
(Booklets are in PDF format. Adobe Reader required)
| Narcotics Anonymous - Basic Text - Sixth Edition | It Works: How and Why |
Booklets
Informational Pamphlets (IPs)
Group Readings
| Who Is an Addict? |
What Is the NA Program? |
Why Are We Here? |
| Just for Today |
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| We Do Recover |
11 Revised Manual 2009
Manual on minimum standards of services for the programmes under the scheme for prevention of alcoholism and substance (Drugs) Abuse read more...