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Family, society can help bring drug addicts on track: Gehlot

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NEW DELHI : Union minister for social justice and empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot has said that the family and society should come forward and help drug addicts to get them back to the society, start working and become productive members of society.

The minister was speaking at the “XXI Annual Conference of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM 2019) organized by the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre and Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences-New Delhi.

Mr Gehlot said that his ministry is the nodal agency for demand reduction activities related to substance use disorder and it had commissioned a national level survey to assess the extent of substance use in India, and AIIMS was asked to conduct the study for the ministry.

The report was released in February 2019 and shows that large number of people need help for their addiction problem. The Ministry has taken note of the problem and has initiated steps to scale up programmes and interventions for people with addiction.

It is also working with school and college going students and with children dropping out of schools to ensure that they do not start taking drugs. It has started to increase the number of treatment centres for treatment of drug addiction in the country.

ISAM 2019 is being attended by delegates from more than 30 countries. The 4-day event is witnessing more than 40 lectures by prominent international and national experts in prevention and treatment of addiction and more than 80 symposia and workshops on various aspects of addictive disorders.


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