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$ "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 use. Moreover, discrimination from socie...

 SAFER – a new WHO initiative to boost national alcohol policy processes Published 10. 10 2018 by  Dag Endal WHO recently launched a new action package – SAFER. It aims at supporting the global target of reducing harmful use of alcohol by 10% by 2025. The initiative has been strongly supported by several global civil society networks. SAFER is a WHO-led roadmap to support governments in taking practical steps to accelerate progress on health, beat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through addressing the harmful use of alcohol, and to achieve sustainable development targets. The SAFER package provides technical guidance on five high-impact strategic actions that are prioritized for implementation to promote health and development: S trengthen restrictions on alcohol availability. A dvance and enforce drink driving countermeasures. F acilitate access to screening, brief interventions, and treatment. E nforce bans or comprehensive restrictions on alcohol advertis...

I OGT Statements   71st Regional Committee Meeting WHO SEARO New Delhi, India, September 3 – 7, 2018 The  Seventy-first Session of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization Regional Office For South-East Asia  convened in Hotel Taj Mahal, New Delhi, India. Side Event on Preparation for the UN General Assembly High-Level Meetings on Tuberculosis and NCD prevention and control,  IOGT International statement , by   Mr Suneel Vatsyayan , IOGT International regional representative  Alcohol is a major and cross-cutting obstacle to universal health coverage and the SDGs..... Suneel Vatsyayan Agenda item 8.5: Annual report on monitoring progress on UHC and health-related SDGs,  IOGT International statement , by Mr Suneel Vatsyayan

CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT ...... Nada India is a c o-signing organisation ,  Time to Deliver in 2018: Bolder Commitments and Action Needed to Reverse the Tide of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Disorders Wednesday 6 June 2018  The NCD Alliance and Nada India Foundation  welcome the Report of the WHO Independent High Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), Time To Deliver, launched on Friday 1 June in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of crucial negotiations for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs (UN HLM) taking place in New York this coming September. The Commission's report draws a line in the sand on the need for political leaders to accept that progress to date has been severely inadequate and out of step with the growing burden of NCDs and mental and neurological health. All evidence points to the same unpleasant reality: that if the current pace of progress continues unabated, by 2030 the agreed Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target...

Department of Social Work, University of Delhi Organized five days capacity building Training Programme for SC students on the theme of “Youth for Social Change” from 27th to 31st January 2017. The basic idea of this training programme was to enhance the competencies and perspectives of SC students to visualize the larger social change while addressing the contemporary challenges and problems faced by the student groups from oppressed and marginalized communities in India.  This training was organized with support of Rajeev Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD) Tamil Nadu.  The  participants for this training were  M.A/ M.Phil and PhD Scholars from Delhi University, Jamia, JNU and Ambedkar University. Nada India conducted a session on Life Skill Education for Youths  on  29th January ( Sunday ) 2017 at 12.00 pm. at the Department of Social Work, 3-University Road, University of Delh i.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has some very original advise for those craving alcohol in his state where there is a blanket ban on consumption and possession. “Turn off the lights and drink juice, you will feel the same,” suggested Kumar primly. He continued to bait recreational drinkers not just in Bihar but everywhere in India by declaring that enforcing prohibition has been the highlight of his career. “I feel a deep sense of fulfillment after banning alcohol,” he claimed. Not that it was likely to feature on anybody’s bucket list, but there’s now yet another reason never to go to Bihar.http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/on-the-loose-bottoms-down-sometimes-the-laughs-write-themselves-3037997/

Director, IHBAS,  Delhi Dear Dr.  NG   Desai   ji , I congratulate you and the core committee members for preparing well drafted "Delhi State Mental Health Authority minimum standards for substance use treatment and rehabilitation centres ". T he draft document on minimum standard of care is inclusive and easy to implement. It will help hundreds of voluntary organisations running rehabilitation centres in Delhi to deliver much much needed services to patients and their care givers.  My comments/observations on the draft document are mentioned below (in  bold) :  1. The substance use disorders treatment and rehabilitation centres provides one or more of the following services :  I would suggest to please also add word "residential" services. 2. Acute Detox :  Drug overdose management may be included  (I understand that "Acute care" may include overdose  management  but adding this into service head wil...

Dear Friends, We are happy to inform you all about the proud moment for all of us that NAPSWI represented India at 35th Annual Social work Day at the United Nations on 26th March 2018, probably first time. Mr Suneel Vatsayanan, a known social work practitioner and  Executive Member of NAPSWI has attended  Social Work Day at the UN which is a gathering place for people around the world who are working to make a difference. For 35 years social work students, practitioners, and educators have been convening at the UN to learn more about the UN, innovative projects and issues related to International Social Work and the critical role Social Work plays in the international arena.the theme of social work day was SDGs, Climate Change and Social Work Practice. We will share a complete report on his participation and outcomes, Mr Suneel will return back to India. Meanwhile, I am enclosing a link where you can see two hour long programme on this weblink. http://webtv.un.org/watc...

Web-based consultation (10-16 May 2018)  WHO Independent High-level Commission on NCDs The WHO Independent High-level Commission  hosted a web-based consultation from 10 to 16 May 2018 on a preliminary draft report dated 1 May 2018. Nada India submitted comments.  The Nada India commends the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs for its  preliminary draft report and all the work that has been until this point by the Commissioners.  The Nada India also welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the process of developing the first  report of the Independent High-Level Commission on Non- Communicable Diseases.  Please visit the  link to read  Nada India's comments.... #IOGTInternational #NCDAlliance #NCDs @IOGT  Nada India NCD Network  IOGT International 

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...

Prof. Ashok Aima Vice Chancellor, Central University of Jammu   felicitated Mr. Suneel Vatsyayan  Department of Social Work, Central University of Jammu in collaboration with National Institute of Social Defence, Delhi conducted one day Capacity Building programme on Drug Abuse for the middle level functionaries of Police Department, J&K on 2nd Feb 2018 M r.Vatsyayan Suneel Chairperson Nada India was invited to deliver lectures 1.Role of Police in dealing with persons with substance use disorder: Focus on legal provisions, reformation of drug addicts and protection of society. 2. Drug De-addiction Rehabilitation and Counselling: Role of Development agencies. The session was interactive and thought provoking. He emphasized that the beat Constable is real social worker with authority having definite role in drug prevention and rehabilitation. He also visited and appreciated  the efforts of Jammu Police in organizing the drug rehabilitation center ...

Vindhya Vatsyayan came to the 2nd Global NCD Alliance Forum as a youth delegate, eager to learn how to better represent the voices of those who suffer NCDs in silence. Today she is using the knowledge and inspiration gained there to do just that. Here she shares some of her key reflections. My father always keeps an eye on what is happening around the world and where he can send his daughter to learn new things, and that's exactly how I ended up attending the Youth Pre-Forum Workshop at the 2 nd  Global NCD Alliance Forum in Sharjah, UAE. I filled in the application form very meticulously; but honestly, it was quite simple because all I had to do was share my story, experiences and the change I want to see in the world. "People will forget what you did but will remember how you made them feel." - a person living with NCDs It was not just focused on my qualifications, but more on why I feel so strongly for a cause and how I plan to bring change. For the first ti...

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...