Nashamitra
“Take risk in your life. If you win, you can lead! If you lose, you can guide.”
Swami Vivekananda

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Welcome to Nashamitra

Nashamitra is a not-for-profit, self-empowerment based and innovative model of care for the complex problem of addiction. In recent times, substance use disorder has been categorized under lifestyle disease. However, the social, and environmental factors are crucial in the development of substance use disorder. Therefore, the substance users, their family and community take an equally important role in the journey of Nashamitra. Nashamitra emphasizes holistic recovery and sustainable socio-economic development for recovering substance users. A diverse team of Nashamitra provides the latest evidence-based treatment for addiction by a group of skilled professionals and volunteers.

Nashamitra aims to address social determinants of a substance use disorder, which is deeply embedded in the environment where the recovering substance users grow up. However, these social determinants of addiction, such as unemployment, social stigma, and poverty, are often oversight by institution-based care for addiction. Therefore, a recovering substance user can only achieve a sustainable socio-economic goal by working with grassroots or community level people. Thus, Nashamitra endeavours to bring people from all walks for the great cause of uplifting lives of young substance users. The focus of Nashamitra also incorporates the welfare of the children of addicts and other vulnerable family members of substance users.

Nashamitra looks above the medical model of addiction and promotes a holistic approach to solve the addiction problem. It gives a lot of emphasis on empathy, respect, and equality. Nashamitra not only examines the issues of the young person with addiction problems, but it also tries to instill a positive attitude and teamwork mentality among their close family members and surrounding community. Thus, social recovery takes place in conjunction with medical recovery. Furthermore, Nashamitra involves the local community and empowers them to appreciate their critical role in the sustainable recovery of a young substance user, rather than blaming the victims of addiction for their problems.

Mission & Vision

  • Addiction is an emerging non-communicable illness. The negative impact of addiction in our society is devastating

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  • The current model of care in addiction is either strongly biomedical or strictly spiritual

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  • The current model emphasize complete abstinence whilst not taking into consideration the range of socio-cultural issues often perpetuating relapse

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  • Nashamitra is an innovative effort with a far reaching perspective on upliftment of the life of addicted people and their family

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  • Nashamitra is a first of this kind initiative which has endeavoured to integrate public health, mental health, and health sociological perspective to addiction problems

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Community Addiction Screening Inventory (CASI)

Test to know the impact of addiction on your health [...]

Our Services

Intervention         Treatment

individual

Individual

Every individual will be treated as anonymous and equal [...]

partner

Partner/spouse

Good working relationship with the partner is critical for success of a community program [...]

parents

Parents

How can underestimate the role of our parents in the process of recovery [...]

children

Chidren of addict

Our children often suffer lot more as a result of our suffering [...]

Medication

Medication

Long term use of any substance often leads to dependence [...]

Acudetox

Acudetox

The benefits of AcuDetox are manifold that it can relieve withdrawal symptoms [...]

psychological

Psychological

Evidence-based questionnaires can detect the problematic pattern of substance use [...]

physical-health

Physical health

Substance addiction often causes a whole range of physical health consequences [...]

Recent Posts

Nilotpal
Alcoholism, Wernicke's encephalopathy and the social factors

Aug 02, 2018

Gargi
Harm minimisation for alcohol (Video)

May 30, 2018

Gargi
Research proposal Example: Alcohol brief intervention and harm minimisation

May 30, 2018

Gargi
Alcohol dependence and nada protocol a reflection

December 27, 2017

Gargi
Harm minimisation for alcohol

August 28, 2017

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