Nada India Foundation News update

Heady childhood Marijuana addiction is coming out of universities and into schools with children as young as 11 experimenting with it Veenu Sandhu   March 19, 2016 "Doctor, have you tried marijuana?" "No" "Then how do you know it is bad?" Brahmdeep Sindhu, senior psychiatrist at the Civil Hospital in Gurgaon, was stumped when a 14-year-old from a prominent school threw this question at him. "The child then went to great lengths, quoting blogs he had read on the internet, to convince me why he, many of his classmates and some of his juniors, children as young as 12, thought it was harmless, even beneficial, to smoke up." Every month, 15 to 20 new cases of schoolchildren, boys and girls, are brought by their parents to Sindhu for counselling. They are all hooked to cannabis: often marijuana  (the leaf of the plant) and sometimes hashish (extracted from the plant's resin). Far away from Gurgaon, in the fields past Navi Mu...

“ Hugs—not drugs —are what we must promote,” Mr. Vatsyayan said. “We are all living in our own islands,” he stated, “disconnected from everyone  else. We will have to create a world in which everyone can win.” “If we give importance to participation rather than competition,” Mr. Vatsyayan  explained, “then everyone can win. If you add competition then chances of drug use will increase. Inclusive  approach is important. Isolation can lead to addiction. We need preventive health  system with an inclusive approach.” Mr. Vatsyayan pointed out that: “People in the audience who watch you play become inspired to play and gives birth to a potential player. If we let the audience join us, they may not get addicted. Rahgiri is an amazing example where there is community engagement, and there are no organizers, no medals. It is an inclusive approach.” Maidan Summit 2015 was organised by Magic Bus (NGO)

18th January, 2015,Yesterday we (Nada India) held a conference at the former school of Suneel’s daughter and son school (DAV Public School Vasant Kunj).  It involved conventional well meaning school and media professionals plus a remarkable group of 15 active duty teachers in many different schools in Delhi.  The teachers formed 3 separate focus groups who expressed a high level of awareness of the developing pressures leading to a loss of sobriety and safety for their young students.  Let me share a developing concept of mine. In many parts of the world modern changes lead to social developments that are labeled as growth.  A significant component is new marketing to young and older adolescents through the internet focused on soda, fast food, movies and music, facebook, etc., leading to tobacco  and alcohol use. Money is effectively channeled to adolescents from their parents.  In older poorer societies there  was no ‘adolescence’ because teenage pe...

Recently, Suneel Vatsyayan ,Chairperson ,Nada India was interviewed by IANS correspondent on proposed Bihar alcohol ban. " Bihar liquor ban should be 'participatory', not agenda: Experts" was the headline. He emphasized that alcoholism has to be looked at through the perspective of women and children affected, not just those using it. Following news papers and web links covered the news,for details,please visit these links Business Standard  http://www.business-standard. com/article/news-ians/bihar- liquor-ban-should-be- participatory-not-agenda- experts-115112600946_1.html Gulf Today http://gulftoday.ae/portal/ 57a07cd3-89b5-49df-9819- 8017b5086f4d.aspx Freepress Journal http://www.freepressjournal. in/bihar-liquor-ban-should-be- participatory-experts/ Current News http://currentnews.in/nitish- ban-liquor-bihar-april-fools- day-cms-concern-poor-women/ Yahoo News https://in.news.yahoo.com/ bihar-liquor-ban- participatory-not-agenda- experts-...

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Guidepoints News from NADA Jan/Feb 2015  Book Review: Social Work Education and  Practice Engagement, edited by Sanjai Bhatt  and Suresh Pathare  Social worker and Nada India Foundation (NIF) chairperson,  Suneel Vatsyayan , is a contributing author to a new volume on social work in India which has just been published by Shipra Publications. Vatsyayan’s chapter in this anthology considers the connection between social work and the NADA ear acupuncture treatment. Specifically, he describes how the NADA protocol is as an ideal social work intervention for drug and alcohol addiction. Vatsyayan trained first at the Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation Drug Treatment Centre in 2000 with NADA founder, Michael Smith, and social worker and past NADA president, Ruth Ackerman. He then continued his training at Lincoln Recovery Center in 2001. At the Navjyoti treatment center, he observed that the NADA protocol can help t...