ADDICTION SERVICES
Addiction is the most common problems faced by people in India. It causes enormous amount of distress to spouse, parents, children’s and other family members.
Why addiction needs to be treated
- It’s a medical disorder which is simply not a habit
- It makes individual physically weak and succumb them to various other disorders like stroke, heart attack, cancer, Gastritis, frequent infections
- Causes severe work impairment and unemployment
- Causes significant financial loss due to non-earning and spending time and money for substance
- Causes significant burden and distress to spouse, parents , children and significant others
- It induces other mental illness such as depression, anxiety, psychosis, mood disorder, sleep problems and sexual problems
- It is the major cause of marital problems and divorce
- It changes one's personality
Types of Addiction
Opioid Addiction: Heroin, Brown sugar, Afeem, codeine containing cough syrups,
IV Morphine, Bupernorpine and Pentazocaine addiction
Cannabis Addiction: Marijuana/ Weed / Ganja / , Bang, and Hashish
Alcohol Addiction
Cocaine Addiction
Tablet Addiction: Ecstasy (MDMA), Sleeping pills, Pain killers
Tobacco Addiction
Inhalant addiction: Solvents, fevibond
Internet and social media Addiction
Neuropsychiatric clinic offers comprehensive deaddiction management which includes assessment of severity, deaddiction, other medical comorbidities and other psychiatric illness
Treatment provided
Motivation enhancement counseling,
Detoxification though pharmacotherapy and
Relapse prevention counseling to prevent further addiction