ORIENTATION VISIT TO BASAVAMARGA REHABILATION CENTRE

Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psycho therapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs and street drugs such as cannabis,cocaine, and heroin. The general intent is to enable the patient to confront substances dependence.Treatment includes medication for depression or other disorders counseling by experts and sharing of experience with other addicts. On 28/11/23 around 3:00pm from department of social work, we had visited Basavamarga Rehabilitation centre .To know about the organizational and physical setup of the centre. Also to gain knowledge regarding treatment measures to patients with drug addiction. Mr. Manjunath working as counselor of the centre explained that, “They Aim towards providing all addicts so that they can develop their potential to the full.Additionally they work with the downtrodden people to promote equal rights and opportunities so that they can prosper in their lives”. He continued explaining, that the “Basavamarga Foundation was registered in 2017 officially.The community has served the society since 1991 and currently manages multiple funds for individual family and foundation donors and local nonprofit. In the last seven years they have been doing charity and de-addiction works in association with other charitable organizations. During its rich history of partnering with donors and the community,the foundation has earned an outstanding reputation for services,transparency and reliability. Mr. S Basvaraj was the founder and Mr. Prakash Prabhu is the trustee. Dr. Shashank is the psychiatry and Dr. Anand is the physician. There are 140 people who are admitted for 3 months.This is the spiritual programme for the Addicts. All the facilities are provided and there are co-curricular activities so that they can divert their mind and can indulged themselves.Gym facilities are provided and yoga trainer will teach yoga.He continued explaining “During Pandemic the School kids, teenagers were addicted to substances and had more cases compared to the time of pandemic. Counseling and therapies will be provided to the patients.The patients will get withdrawal symptoms after 3-4 hrs.Without medications they depend on 5D’s to overcome:Deep breathing, Drinking water,Discuss,Diversion,Decision.They also took all of us to show the surrounding, infrastructure, facilities of the centre and end the session.

The visit to basavamarga Rehabilitation centre was very much useful for the trainees; they gained lots of information about this place and learnt how this organization works. Last but not the least to overcome any substances or habit of anything is a firm mind set of the particular individual.