Nasha mukti kendra for families from Suratgarh.

Why families from Suratgarh call us

The call usually comes after something has already been tried. He was kept somewhere for a few weeks, he came home, and within a month the family was back where it started.

There is normally one reason for that. Only the body was treated.

Behind the drug there is very often something else that nobody looked at. Depression, anxiety, sleep that stopped years ago, or something that happened once and was never spoken about again. Treat only the withdrawal and the man walks out clean into exactly the same mind he walked in with. Aasra has its own consultant psychiatrist on staff, Dr. Amanullah Ghori, M.B.B.S., DPM, not a doctor who visits twice a week. In this belt most places do not have one at all.

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Which parts of the area families come from

Suratgarh town, and Rajiasar, Birdhwal, Ramsara, Thukrana and the canal villages spread around them. Some families ring from places we have to look up on the map, and that is perfectly all right.

This is canal country. The land pays, and where the land pays there is cash in the house, and cash in the house is the quiet half of the problem that families rarely say out loud on the first call.

The habit this belt inherited

Doda post is not new here and it was never treated as a drug. For years it was sold legally. Rajasthan ran licensed retail outlets for opium husk, and registered users collected a monthly quota endorsed by a doctor, in Sri Ganganagar district among others. The state closed those outlets in 2016.

That matters to families here for one reason. The supply stopped, the dependence did not. A man who had been on a measured quota for fifteen years had to find it somewhere else, and what he found was neither measured nor clean. A good number of the heroin and chitta cases we admit from this side started as doda cases that had nowhere legal left to go.

• Doda and post. Older men more often than young, and the family usually does not count it as a drug until the body starts giving way. How doda is treated.
• Chitta and heroin. Younger men, and the one families discover last because it hides the longest. How chitta is treated.
• Medical store tablets. Started for pain or for sleep and carried on long after the reason went away. How that is treated.
• Alcohol. The one families try hardest to handle themselves, and the one where stopping suddenly at home can cause fits and can kill. How alcohol is treated.

Our centre at Hanumangarh

Of our two centres this is the one most families from the Suratgarh side use. It is a residential drug rehabilitation centre, not a clinic that shuts in the evening, and there is no appointment system. You can come and look at the place before you decide anything, and you can come with the patient or without him.

There is more detail on the Hanumangarh page. Families from the Sri Ganganagar side of the district can read the same for Sri Ganganagar.

The government route

If money is the problem, look at the government side first. Rajasthan runs de-addiction treatment through its district health services and has run rehabilitation schemes and detox camps of its own. What is available and what it costs changes from time to time, so confirm the current position directly with the district hospital or the district health office rather than trusting anything you read online, including this page.

We are not going to talk you out of a free option you can actually reach. Plenty of people have got better through it. Families usually come to us after that route has been tried and the man has relapsed, or when they want a place that keeps him longer than a short detox admission allows.

What the treatment actually involves

About four months, in three stages. It is residential the whole way through.

• Medical detox first, under supervision, because the first week is the dangerous one. What detox involves.
• Counselling, daily, individual and in groups. This is where the reason behind the drug gets dealt with rather than parked.
• Rehabilitation, the part most places skip. Routine, yoga, gym, sports, and enough time for the habit to lose its grip. The full programme.

There is a psychiatrist on staff throughout. That is the part that decides whether the fourth month holds.

Bringing someone who does not want to come

Almost nobody arrives here willingly. If he is refusing, that is not a reason to wait, it is the usual starting point.

Ring and tell us the whole situation, including the parts that are hard to say on the phone. We have handled this a few hundred times and we will tell you what has worked for families in the same position. Never plan it alone at the last minute, and never make a promise you cannot keep, because it costs you his trust for months afterwards.

Confidentiality

No name and no photograph leaves either centre without written permission from the family. The men in our video testimonials chose to speak. Most families do not, and that is completely normal. Nobody in Suratgarh hears anything from us.