Open AccessStrategy for the management of substance use disorders in the State of Punjab: Developing a structural model of state-level de-addiction services in the health sector (the "Punjab model")
Author(s) -
Debasish Basu,
Ajit Avasthi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.148509
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , addiction , identification (biology) , service (business) , business , health care , medicine , psychiatry , marketing , economic growth , economics , philosophy , linguistics , botany , biology
Substance use disorders are believed to have become rampant in the State of Punjab, causing substantive loss to the person, the family, the society, and the state. The situation is likely to worsen further if a structured, government-level, state-wide de-addiction service is not put into place.