Drink Revolution pre-launch party @ARSD College in Collaboration with NISD
SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME
PREVENTION OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG THE YOUTH
About 170 students participated in this training programme. Participants were from Ram Lal Anand College ,Aryabhatta College, Maitreyi College, Rajdhani College, Kalindi College, P.G.D.A.V College and A.R.S.D College.
The First Session was taken by Suneel Vatsayan, founder and chairperson of NADA India Foundation. He is an avid researcher, philanthropist and blogger who has been associated with IOGT International for more than three decades. He is actively engaged in the field of sensitising adolescent community in the slum, villages, schools and colleges on various issues like HIV, NCDs, alcohol/ drug abuse and violence.
His session was very interactive and lively which included examples that established a very good rapport with the audience. He also shared his experiences of working with drug users and people afflicted with non communicable diseases (NCDs) and peer education work with undergraduate students of various disciplines. He explained in details the terminologies associated that are use, misuse / harmful use, abuse, dependence, addiction and detoxification.
He began his session with an experiential exercise on identifying any one disease that any of the family members had and the coping mechanism of family members during those times. He remarked that the past mistakes are meant to guide us in future. It is in this context he talked about drug de-addiction so that students could empathise with the situation of family members of drug addicts. He stressed that language of recovery must be used in such situations so the word addict should be replaced by drug dependent. He discussed the reasons that make the youth more susceptible to drug abuse. The adolescent within youth battling with identity crisis, need of privacy, curiosity, mood swings, peer pressure sometimes resort to drugs as a means of relaxation and before they even realise they fall in the vicious cycle of addiction. Drugs become peace at any price as they provide reliable escape from personal consciousness and risk of unpredictable pain; addiction is a disease of “more”.
A majority of youth fall into this trap unknowingly hence it becomes very important to treat them. The treatment of drug abuse and recovery process begins with management of chemical symptoms of withdrawal and craving. This is followed by providing safety, social support, education about addiction, basic issues of personal growth. The role of family and society in the second phase becomes very important. He coined “Tough Love” as the best description of treatment strategy. Its a seemingly impossible combination of strong discipline and unquestioning support. “Tough Love” is part of any parenting or teaching effort. The different steps in the detoxification process were also discussed. In the end he remarked that the strong will power to recover plays a very important role in the process of recovery. He concluded his talk by discussing how NADA foundation is dealing with this problem existing in our society by the technical assistance programme it runs.
Schedule
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09.30 AM to
10.30 AM
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Registration of Participants
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10.30 AM to
11.30 AM
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Inaugural Session
Lighting of Lamp
Felicitation of the Dignitaries on the
Dias
Address by Dr. G.K.Jha, Principal ARSD
College
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11.30 AM to
01.00 PM
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Session 1 by Suneel Vatsyayan,
Chairperson, NADA India on Treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts
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01.00 PM to 02.00PM
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Lunch
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02.00 PM to
02.30 PM
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Session 2 by Dr Geeta Mishra on Drug
Abuse and Youth and Transgender
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02.30 PM to 03.00 PM
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Session3 by Dr Bani Bora on Drug Abuse,
Women and Role of Counselling
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03.00 PM to 03.30 PM
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Session 4 by Mr Pramod Kumar on
Adolescent Youth- Growth &
Development in respect to Drug Abuse
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03.30 PM to 04.00PM
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Brainstorming Session
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04.00 PM to 04.30 PM
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Distribution of certificates to the
Participants
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20-09-2017
11.00AM to 4PM
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Inter-College Debate competition on the
topic
‘Is drug abuse a Disease or choice?’
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