I was at the Drug Addiction Treatment And Rehabilitation Centre of the Vom Christian hospital today.As I said yesterday,I will be having my posting there for the next 6-weeks.There were a total of 26 patients on admission,and because I and my colleague were seing them for the first time,we had to go into details in order to get to know them well.
There is a vaste variety of cases,but the most common were of people who were dependent on either alcohol,cannabis,nicotine or a combination of two or all of these.There was no one with dependence on things like cocaine or heroine because these are exotic and more expessive drugs.
There are some cases of frank psychotic disorders as well, including schizophrenia without any history of substance use,who got into the place one way or the other and there were also cases of schizophrenia with co-morbid substance use.But a good number of them have had their psychotic disorder cleared in JUTH before being refered there.Some also came directly there because it is not their first attempt at rehabilitation.
As must be expected from what I wrote in the last post,the majority of the patients were
dependent on alcohol.The extend to which alcohol is affecting people's lives can only be appreciated when one sees young people who otherwise would have been making academic,business and other forms of exploits wasting away.
Surely,the drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation centre is a very appropriate and welcomed development given the fact that the Psychiatric department of JUTH is pressed for space and is largely a short stay hospital
One only hopes that there will be adequate provisions for follow up of these patients in other to consolidate on the gains achieved during their rehabilitation.I mean there is a strong need to form support and self groups for long term support in the mode of the popular Alcohol Anonymous(A.A)
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