Urgent need to rehabilitate drug
addicts: President Pranab Mukherjee
There
is an urgent need to provide community-based services for the identification,
counselling and de-addiction of drug addicts along with their after-care and
rehabilitation, President Prabnab Mukherjee said Thursday. At an award ceremony
here to recognise outstanding services in the field of prevention of alcohol
and substance abuse, Mukherjee said alcoholism and drug abuse were
psycho-social-medical problems requiring a holistic approach. ‘The aim of the
comprehensive treatment programme should not merely be to get the addicted
individuals off alcohol or drugs. Focused attention on making the addicts
productive members of the society by making them drug-free, crime-free and
gainfully employed is what is required,’ he said.
The president said the importance of
skill-building and vocational training of drug-dependent people for their
social and economic reintegration cannot be over-emphasised. The stress should
be on mobilisation of community resources and greater community participation.
‘Law enforcement agencies should be sensitised to the needs of victims of
substance abuse to enable them to be rehabilitated and reintegrated in the
society,’ he said. ‘Generating continuous and sustained awareness through
innovative methods about the harmful effects of drug abuse also assumes
critical importance,’ he added.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
28.06.2014
A happy
marriage leads to a healthy heart!
How
happy you are in your marriage affects your heart in more ways than previously
thought as researchers have found that unhappy marital interaction is linked to
thicker carotid arteries and a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. ‘Growing
evidence suggests that the quality and patterns of one’s social relationships
may be linked with a variety of health outcomes, including heart disease,’ said
Thomas Kamarck, professor of psychology at University of Pittsburgh in the US.
‘The contribution of this study is
in showing that these sorts of links may be observed even during the earliest
stages of plaque development (in the carotid artery),’ Kamarck added. Those in
unhappy marital interactions may have an 8.5 percent greater risk of suffering
heart attack or stroke than those with a surfeit of good feelings, the findings
showed. The study included 281 healthy, employed, middle-aged adults who were
married or living with a partner in a marital-like relationship. Their
interactions were monitored hourly over the course of four days, with the
partners rating their interactions as positive or negative. Carotid artery
thickness was also measured. Those partners reporting more negative
interactions were found to have thicker carotids. The study appeared in the
journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
28.06.2014
Expression
of the face could be seen by everyone but depression of heart could be
understood by the best one
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