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DRUG
ADDICTION
(Ref.
: Lt.Col. G.R. Golechha, Sr. Advisor, Psychiatry, Indian
Army. His Paper published in 'Indian Journal of Psychiatry'
1987, 29 (3), Pp 247 - 252 - titled 'AGNIHOTRA USEFUL ADJUNCT
IN TREATMENT OF RESISTANT AND DEMOTIVATED SMACK ADDICT')
Brief
Extract:
'An
Officer of 25 years age who has been a polydrug abuser in
the past was selected for the study. He was addicted to
Heroin for 2 years, other drugs included Alcohal, Cocaine,
Cannabis and Smoking. His dosage schedule of Heroin had
already reached 3 grams a day. He had underwent de-addition
programme twice in the past with no benefit had become demotivated
and resistant. When treating psychiatrists were totally
exhausted of all their efforts to break his resistece and
improve motivation he was introduced to Agnihotra. After
3 days he developed inclination for it and voluntarily joined
the group Agnihotra. By the 7th day he took up to perform
it himself. To roughly quantify and compare the improvement
a rating scale was developed. It had subjective as well
as objective scoring, which was observed and charted. The
practice of Agnihotra resulted in improving his motivation
to abstain from Smack and decrease his urge for it. Improved
motivation further suppressed the urge and broke his resistance,
in insidious but progressive manner, in 4 weeks of Agnihotra
practice. It reinforced his voluntary efforts to abstain
from drugs and thus enhance motivation and reduce psychological
dependence. He was further followed up for 15 months. After
close scrutiny it was confirmed that there was no recurrance.
All the psycho-therapeutic advances fall short in deaddicting
a demotivated addict. Agnihotra is a new hope in this field'.
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