The Narcotics Control Bureau has announced that drug abuse has been on the increase since 2011 in Chennai. The drugs in use are heroin, ganja and cocaine. The Narcotics Control Bureau has indeed been successful in creating awareness about the situation while there have been several de-addiction centers fighting the problem in Chennai. Some of the premium hospitals in Chennai such as TTK Hospital have done yeomen service to control the problem. Founded in 1980, the TTK center for de-addiction has been helping thousands of people fight their addictions and other hospitals have also followed the example and have been providing care, support and treatment for the addicted. These centers are meeting de-addiction needs with detoxification and counselling.
The Tamil Nadu de-addiction directory has details of 40 centers that will work to enable you and your loved ones to fight their addiction and recover from drug abuse. Wisdom Hospital and TTK hospital in Chennai are leaders in this area in the recovery community.
The VHS-Rajaji Centre for De-addiction also provides similar help and guidance to patients and has 22 beds to treat alcoholics and drug addicts.
These are a few of the good de-addiction centers in Chennai and there is not much else available for the time being, When you go looking for drug and alcohol treatment centers in Chennai, you find a few government run facilities and outreach programs as well as the TTK de-addiction center and the Wisdom Hospital.
Chennai which was earlier known as Madras, is the capital of Tamil Nadu and has a population of 5 million + people. In Chennai the hospitals report 90% of people admitted are due to alcohol abuse. There is a pattern to this and this is seen every day in the casualty wards of these hospitals. More than 80% of the cases admitted as accident / assault are seen as medical / legal cases arising due to alcohol abuse. At the Stanley Hospital in Chennai alone, everyday five patients are admitted with complaints of “Alcohol Overdose”.
When one does an inquiry into the cause for the alcohol abuse and the current state of affairs, one realises that an improvement in the income causes people to take to drinking. This does not happen with the youth alone. This is seen happening with middle aged men who are admitted to the casualty section of hospitals as well.
Apart from the well-known de-addiction centers there are many more rehab centers that have sprung up on the outskirts of the city and these cater to the increasing drug and alcohol addicts in this region. These rehab centers are often managed by well-meaning staff who have been addicts themselves. These reformed addicts are often “under qualified” but with a keenness to help others in similar problems. The issues ultimately are not so much the lack of intent but the lack of regulation.
The center that offers de-addiction facility must have qualified doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists and other paramedical staff and this is found lacking in these newly created outfits. Shanti Ranganathan who heads the TT Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation, says that these centers are seriously lacking in facilities and the required expertise to deal with the addicts. She also expresses unhappiness at the fact that some of the patients from the TTK de-addiction center itself have started clinics. Also, these centers cannot be pronounced illegal as they have been registered after fulfilling all the mandatory requirements.
The TTK de-addiction center offers services such as AA and NA Meetings, Detoxification, Alcoholism Treatment, Drug Addiction Treatment, Residential Rehabilitation, Prevention of Relapse and Family Services.
Founded in the year 1980, this center was started with the desire to help people struggling with addiction. Since then the hospital has increased to a capacity of a 65 bed treatment facility in 1987 and has been instrumental in helping 20,000 individuals with alcohol and drug addiction.
The hospital’s vision is to help rehabilitate patients with the help of in-house treatment and focus on helping the patient’s families understand that addiction is a very serious problem. Patients are the first to be provided with the help. There are detoxification and psychological therapy provided which may consist of individual and group sessions. The TTK Hospital also has a unique program which would require families to participate in therapy for 14 days.
There is also a 25 day program whereby patients can take up counselling any number of times in a month, for approximately 2-3 years to help the patient in living a healthy life henceforth. Although success in recovery may seem like a daunting task to many including the kith and kin of the addicts, one has to take advantage of the help and resources available at the centers. Learning from these places will help in the recovery process.
The Tamil Nadu de-addiction directory has details of 40 centers that will work to enable you and your loved ones to fight their addiction and recover from drug abuse. Wisdom Hospital and TTK hospital in Chennai are leaders in this area in the recovery community.
The VHS-Rajaji Centre for De-addiction also provides similar help and guidance to patients and has 22 beds to treat alcoholics and drug addicts.
These are a few of the good de-addiction centers in Chennai and there is not much else available for the time being, When you go looking for drug and alcohol treatment centers in Chennai, you find a few government run facilities and outreach programs as well as the TTK de-addiction center and the Wisdom Hospital.
Chennai which was earlier known as Madras, is the capital of Tamil Nadu and has a population of 5 million + people. In Chennai the hospitals report 90% of people admitted are due to alcohol abuse. There is a pattern to this and this is seen every day in the casualty wards of these hospitals. More than 80% of the cases admitted as accident / assault are seen as medical / legal cases arising due to alcohol abuse. At the Stanley Hospital in Chennai alone, everyday five patients are admitted with complaints of “Alcohol Overdose”.
When one does an inquiry into the cause for the alcohol abuse and the current state of affairs, one realises that an improvement in the income causes people to take to drinking. This does not happen with the youth alone. This is seen happening with middle aged men who are admitted to the casualty section of hospitals as well.
Apart from the well-known de-addiction centers there are many more rehab centers that have sprung up on the outskirts of the city and these cater to the increasing drug and alcohol addicts in this region. These rehab centers are often managed by well-meaning staff who have been addicts themselves. These reformed addicts are often “under qualified” but with a keenness to help others in similar problems. The issues ultimately are not so much the lack of intent but the lack of regulation.
The center that offers de-addiction facility must have qualified doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists and other paramedical staff and this is found lacking in these newly created outfits. Shanti Ranganathan who heads the TT Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation, says that these centers are seriously lacking in facilities and the required expertise to deal with the addicts. She also expresses unhappiness at the fact that some of the patients from the TTK de-addiction center itself have started clinics. Also, these centers cannot be pronounced illegal as they have been registered after fulfilling all the mandatory requirements.
The TTK de-addiction center offers services such as AA and NA Meetings, Detoxification, Alcoholism Treatment, Drug Addiction Treatment, Residential Rehabilitation, Prevention of Relapse and Family Services.
Founded in the year 1980, this center was started with the desire to help people struggling with addiction. Since then the hospital has increased to a capacity of a 65 bed treatment facility in 1987 and has been instrumental in helping 20,000 individuals with alcohol and drug addiction.
The hospital’s vision is to help rehabilitate patients with the help of in-house treatment and focus on helping the patient’s families understand that addiction is a very serious problem. Patients are the first to be provided with the help. There are detoxification and psychological therapy provided which may consist of individual and group sessions. The TTK Hospital also has a unique program which would require families to participate in therapy for 14 days.
There is also a 25 day program whereby patients can take up counselling any number of times in a month, for approximately 2-3 years to help the patient in living a healthy life henceforth. Although success in recovery may seem like a daunting task to many including the kith and kin of the addicts, one has to take advantage of the help and resources available at the centers. Learning from these places will help in the recovery process.
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