De-addiction and Rehabilitation Health Education & Promotion of Social Health Vocational training and Rehabilitation. De-addiction and Rehabilitation The centre provides the following facilities to its patients in regard to De-addiction and Rehabilitation Inpatient and outpatient consultations Medical detoxification procedures and emergency services. Comprehensive treatment programme which includes components of motivation enhancement, relapse prevention, group therapy, and family intervention.

	Psychological interventions including yoga, therapy for relapse management.
	Associating with group therapy e.g. alcoholics anonymous.
	Neurophysiologic assessment and rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation.
	Training of medical and non-medical workers in the area on substance abuse and its cure.
	Community awareness and outreach programmes.
	Research on substance abuse.
	Collaboration with other programmes on alcohol de-addiction.
	Workplace evaluation and prevention with the help of employers.

Health Education & Promotion of Social Health

Alcoholism and Substance Abuse is a psychosocial problem and therefore the approach would be to provide a whole range of services including awareness generation, treatment and rehabilitation. With a view to reducing the demand for and consumption of alcohol and dependence producing drugs the thrust will be on preventive educative programmes. The centre would therefore provide the following services to the community.

	Awareness building.
	Motivational Counseling.
	Screening of Abusers /Addicts.
	De addiction and Rehabilitation services.
	Follow up Services.

The objective of this activity is to impart health education to the local population. Paramount is the awareness and education of the lay public on the deleterious effects of alcohol, substance abuse, demystifying the disease, demolishing myths and fallacies of this social problem and means to successfully reintegrate the patients as useful members of the society. This is done by the field workers who conduct classes at Ayalkootams, Kudumbashrees, (Local groups), Self Help Groups (SHGs), churches, community halls, schools and through house visits. The modus of operandi includes the following.

	Health talks at various locations in a systematic manner so as to cover the entire Cochin West area in conjunction with local bodies- Ayalkootams (local gatherings), Service organizations, Religious bodies, Corporation of Cochin etc.
	Seminars at the centre for lay leaders- this would help in dissemination of information and effective implementation at the grass root level.
	Health Seminars for the public.
	Classes for different groups addressing the health requirements specific to them - Men, Women, teenagers and school children.
	Continuing Medical Education for the professional community through conferences, Skills Transfer courses, Library and Internet facilities etc.

Vocational Training and Rehabilitation

Reintegration of patients successfully into society also encompasses helping individuals contribute productively to the society. One of the major factors inducing alcohol/substance abuse is the lack of employment opportunities. We at the centre are also looking at various modalities to provide employment to the patients either by tying up with corporate/industry, imparting skills for self-employment and micro enterprise development.