Nada India Foundation News update

  30 March 2021   Sh.Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor Delhi, Esteemed Sir,  Greetings from the Healthy India Alliance!   The Healthy India Alliance is a coalition of 13 Indian Multi-disciplinary Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), working collaboratively to strengthen CSO capacity and engagement for Non Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and control in the country.     We are writing to you in reference to the recent amendment made on 22-March-21 regarding the Delhi’s Excise Policy. Through this letter we would like to express our concerns over ensuring lesser availability, affordability and acceptability to alcohol. The new amendment poses a threat to the future of Delhi as it will seriously affect the safety and health standards of youth and young adults. Keeping in mind the best interest of Child Rights conventions and the goals of building a drug free and healthy Delhi, we express our support against the new excise policy amendment using the evi...

"The increase in taxes of tobacco products is the need of the hour. It will substantially alter the behavioural pattern of young people towards tobacco consumption by making it unaffordable,"  Dr Anandjeet Goswami, professor and policy expert said on the occasion.    Lack of sufficient taxation on tobacco products as per the WHO FCTC norms, of which India is a signatory, is not just harming young lives but is also draining away valuable revenue of country which could be put to greater social good. Talking in the National Youth Conclave (NYC) of Nada Young India Network (NYIN) held in Delhi today academicians, health experts and youth leaders called on the government and policy makers to pass COTPA amendment 2020 urgently with stringent provisions and also raise excise on tobacco products in the upcoming Budget of the Union Government.  Dr. Mehak Segan, public health expert called on the government to save young lives by increasing the legal age of drinking and by cur...

  International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 2021 -Akshay Sharma International Day Against Drug Abuse 2021 is observed to raise awareness among people about the dangerous effects of drugs and also, it's illicit trafficking. This special day is celebrated to make one another aware of the dangers of consuming drugs and also making an effort to free people from this harmful addiction. On the account of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on 26th June 2021 organised by Ms Suhita Dugar, Chief Minister’s Good Governance associate, Jind and Haryana Police - Jind to promote wellbeing amongst the students in colleges and schools and aware the youth regarding the path of destruction one falls into if he or she chooses drugs as a companion in life! The webinar was attended by very influential and learned individuals, providing an experience of not only stories but the pain our community and nation has suffered due to the people who lost the war again...

The saying goes that “quitters never win,” but in the case of tobacco, quitters are the real winners. Nada India Foundation is trying to help tobacco users quit by providing the support, services, and policies that enable people to quit. Big Tobacco marketing campaigns by Philip Morris, British American, Japan Tobacco, etc. make it even more challenging for smokers to quit. In our efforts, we urge policymakers to ban all Tobacco Marketing and to adopt policies to discourage tobacco use. We believe that cigarette ads seek to sell more and foster an acceptance in people's minds that smoking is natural. What the ads are showing is important. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the countries with a total ban on tobacco advertising report a seven percent drop in the consumption of tobacco products. The COVID19 pandemic has encouraged millions of tobacco users to say they want to quit. There has never been a better time to quit tobacco, and our commitment to helping t...

This article comes from Guidepoints News from NADA  Spring 2021  Issue.  Suneel Vatsyayan:  Year 2020 is important for Nada India for two reasons. First, this was the year Nada India completed 20 years of its existence. It was Dr. Michael O. Smith who introduced me to the word nada, a Spanish word meaning nothing. In Hindi, nada means primordial sound. During his numerous visits to India, we discussed how a patient is smarter than a therapist, and a virus is smarter than the vaccine, and students are smarter than the teacher – they all change faster than our interventions. This causes a gap and increases the service barriers. Thus, the policy and program focus needs to shift from disease control and management to primordial prevention and wellbeing. And so, Dr. Smith invited me to set up Nada India Foundation to promote barrier-free drug rehabilitation services and community wellness for behavioral health. Secondly, 2020 was the year of the Covid-19 pandemic that hel...

  "Notice the gaps in the society: when a parent fails to take protective care of their child, then the Big companies intervene to fill the void, so it is not the question of the parent but how industries are making use of the opportunity by filling the void in the society" Mr. Vatsyayan Chairperson, Nada India   was invited as a resource person by the LNJN National Institute of Criminology and Forensics science on 16-March-21 to conduct a session on Substance use among Street Children. He emphasized on monitoring of tobacco and alcohol availability around children and effective implementation of tobacco laws (COTPA 2003 and  Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (hereafter, JJ Act) . The webinar saw various participants from the field of Judiciary  and Railway Protection Force from different states like Punjab ,Rajasthan,UP Uttarakhand, Maharashtra (Mumbai), West Bengal.  More 22 people like them in police and Judiciary fro...