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Blowing mind games up in smoke
REPRESENTATION PIC
HEALING THROUGH DRUGS?
Many psychiatric patients as young as 14 years, have taken to self-medication with mind-altering substances to gain control over medical disorders
Ruhi, a resident of Vashi, was hit by an overpowering libido when she was barely 13-and-half years old. Not only did she take to unprotected sex with strangers, she even forced her 11-year-old brother into oral sex. She also had a sex clip made of herself in the act and let it go viral.
By 15, not knowing how to deal with her irrepressible nymphomaniac tendencies, she turned to methamphetamine and cocaine. Substance abuse gave her control over her personality disorder, but the minor's selfmedication brought her to the doorstep of a Pune-based NGO, a couple of weeks ago, to cure her of her new addiction.
It is a given that many junkies take to drugs to fight depression or other psychological issues. These were mostly people who have not recognised their state as a clinical condition but just drifted to substance abuse. But lately, de-addiction centres are noting that some cases, alarmingly many of them minors, coming to them are known clinical psychiatric patients who have turned to narcotics as a self-medication initiative.
Twenty-year-old Tejas, from Pune, in his final year of graduation in commerce, was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He had spiritual hallucinations about the deity Ram, perched atop a mountain. He was prescribed anti-depressants. But struggling with drug adherence, Tejas' condition worsened. Putting away his prescription, he sought solace in marijuana. The cannabis rid him of the apparition that haunted him, but also hooked him into a dependency he could do without.
Waking up to his conditions, his parents brought him to Practical Life Skills De-addiction and Rehabilitation Centre, Pashan. Pune's sixteen-year-old Aditya, in his junior college studying commerce, was on anti-depressants to cope with his clinical condition. But the medication was not helping, when his friends introduced him to the joy of sniffing glue. Aditya's depression drove him to masochistic behaviour and he often nicked or inflicted other physical abuse on himself. The glue came to his rescue.
After eight months of sniffing glue, his failing health caught his parents' attention, who dragged him to the deaddiction centre last month. "In past couple of months, we have admitted about six such cases, all aged between 15 and 24, who have indulged in self-medication with mind altering or mood changing substances.
More than alcohol, children as young as 15-16 are trying to take care of their psychiatric inconsistencies with substance abuse," noted Indrajit Deshmukh, project head at Practical Skills. "Our in-patient department (IPD) earlier dealt largely with people above 40 years in age. However, in the past eight to 10 months we are seeing a stream of young patients mostly in the age bracket of 14 to 20 years.
Many of them took to substances in the hope that they would be cured of their mental distress." said Dr Nitin Dalaya, director at the Nityanand Rehabilitation Centre, a 300 bedded facility at Katraj. Most of his patients come from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Goa. "Some of these kids have even graduated to multiple/poly-drug abuse.
The new thing going around is a combination of Vicks Action 500 along with Nitrazepam, Nitravet and Spazmo Proxyvon, These drugs taken in combination, yield a high far above what comes from cocaine or marijuana. Their physical impact is also equally exponential and prolonged use can use can lead to renal and liver failure or gastric ulcers.
We had two teenagers from Mumbai who had come with renal failures within four months of doing this permutation," Dr Dalaya said. "The age of people with diagnosed clinical psychiatric condition taking to self-medication in this manner, have certainly come down.
Cannabis is the preferred substance for them. Since at Muktanagan we don't admit kids of that low age we cannot give the details, but yes, in the last seven-eight months we were approached by many cases aged between 15 and 18, who we redirected to centres that do pediatric admissions," said Sanjay Bhagat, project co-ordinator, Regional Resource and Training Center West Zone 1, and coordinator at Muktangan De-addiction and Rehabilitation Centre. He added that the rising numbers indicate an urgent need to educate children on the adverse effect of such abuse.
Apart from the de-addiction centres, even psychiatrists are aware of this rising number of patients switching to illegal stimulants as selfmedication. "Five years ago, I would barely get a teenager patient who had taken to narcotics despite being a clinically diagnosed psychiatric patient. In the last six months, however, I have seen over 20 such cases.
All the cases were aged between 15 and 25 years,"said Dr Amod Borkar, a psychiatrist with private practice at Karve Nagar. Dr Ulhas Luktuke, life fellow at the International Council of Sex Education and Parenthood and life fellow at Indian Psychiatrists Association, too acknowledging the increasing trend of self-medication with drugs, pointed out, "Easy accessibility to the drugs and the absence of watchful eyes in a nuclear family is engendering this situation.
More than medication, what is required here is sensitisation of parents through workshops, so they have a better understanding of their growing children and provide the necessary support to them."
►►► We are seeing a stream of young patients between 14 to 20 years who took to substances to be cured of mental distress
- DR NITIN DALAYA, Director, Nityanand Rehabilitation Centre
Many psychiatric patients as young as 14 years, have taken to self-medication with mind-altering substances to gain control over medical disorders
Ruhi, a resident of Vashi, was hit by an overpowering libido when she was barely 13-and-half years old. Not only did she take to unprotected sex with strangers, she even forced her 11-year-old brother into oral sex. She also had a sex clip made of herself in the act and let it go viral.
By 15, not knowing how to deal with her irrepressible nymphomaniac tendencies, she turned to methamphetamine and cocaine. Substance abuse gave her control over her personality disorder, but the minor's selfmedication brought her to the doorstep of a Pune-based NGO, a couple of weeks ago, to cure her of her new addiction.
It is a given that many junkies take to drugs to fight depression or other psychological issues. These were mostly people who have not recognised their state as a clinical condition but just drifted to substance abuse. But lately, de-addiction centres are noting that some cases, alarmingly many of them minors, coming to them are known clinical psychiatric patients who have turned to narcotics as a self-medication initiative.
Twenty-year-old Tejas, from Pune, in his final year of graduation in commerce, was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He had spiritual hallucinations about the deity Ram, perched atop a mountain. He was prescribed anti-depressants. But struggling with drug adherence, Tejas' condition worsened. Putting away his prescription, he sought solace in marijuana. The cannabis rid him of the apparition that haunted him, but also hooked him into a dependency he could do without.
Waking up to his conditions, his parents brought him to Practical Life Skills De-addiction and Rehabilitation Centre, Pashan. Pune's sixteen-year-old Aditya, in his junior college studying commerce, was on anti-depressants to cope with his clinical condition. But the medication was not helping, when his friends introduced him to the joy of sniffing glue. Aditya's depression drove him to masochistic behaviour and he often nicked or inflicted other physical abuse on himself. The glue came to his rescue.
After eight months of sniffing glue, his failing health caught his parents' attention, who dragged him to the deaddiction centre last month. "In past couple of months, we have admitted about six such cases, all aged between 15 and 24, who have indulged in self-medication with mind altering or mood changing substances.
More than alcohol, children as young as 15-16 are trying to take care of their psychiatric inconsistencies with substance abuse," noted Indrajit Deshmukh, project head at Practical Skills. "Our in-patient department (IPD) earlier dealt largely with people above 40 years in age. However, in the past eight to 10 months we are seeing a stream of young patients mostly in the age bracket of 14 to 20 years.
Many of them took to substances in the hope that they would be cured of their mental distress." said Dr Nitin Dalaya, director at the Nityanand Rehabilitation Centre, a 300 bedded facility at Katraj. Most of his patients come from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Goa. "Some of these kids have even graduated to multiple/poly-drug abuse.
The new thing going around is a combination of Vicks Action 500 along with Nitrazepam, Nitravet and Spazmo Proxyvon, These drugs taken in combination, yield a high far above what comes from cocaine or marijuana. Their physical impact is also equally exponential and prolonged use can use can lead to renal and liver failure or gastric ulcers.
We had two teenagers from Mumbai who had come with renal failures within four months of doing this permutation," Dr Dalaya said. "The age of people with diagnosed clinical psychiatric condition taking to self-medication in this manner, have certainly come down.
Cannabis is the preferred substance for them. Since at Muktanagan we don't admit kids of that low age we cannot give the details, but yes, in the last seven-eight months we were approached by many cases aged between 15 and 18, who we redirected to centres that do pediatric admissions," said Sanjay Bhagat, project co-ordinator, Regional Resource and Training Center West Zone 1, and coordinator at Muktangan De-addiction and Rehabilitation Centre. He added that the rising numbers indicate an urgent need to educate children on the adverse effect of such abuse.
Apart from the de-addiction centres, even psychiatrists are aware of this rising number of patients switching to illegal stimulants as selfmedication. "Five years ago, I would barely get a teenager patient who had taken to narcotics despite being a clinically diagnosed psychiatric patient. In the last six months, however, I have seen over 20 such cases.
All the cases were aged between 15 and 25 years,"said Dr Amod Borkar, a psychiatrist with private practice at Karve Nagar. Dr Ulhas Luktuke, life fellow at the International Council of Sex Education and Parenthood and life fellow at Indian Psychiatrists Association, too acknowledging the increasing trend of self-medication with drugs, pointed out, "Easy accessibility to the drugs and the absence of watchful eyes in a nuclear family is engendering this situation.
More than medication, what is required here is sensitisation of parents through workshops, so they have a better understanding of their growing children and provide the necessary support to them."
►►► We are seeing a stream of young patients between 14 to 20 years who took to substances to be cured of mental distress
- DR NITIN DALAYA, Director, Nityanand Rehabilitation Centre
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