SUBSTANCE ABUSE: SMIMS to host national conference on ’substance abuse’
Posted by barunroy on October 7, 2009
FROM PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
About 400 participants from across the country will deliberate on ’substance abuse and suicide’ at the three-day national conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) from October nine.
Hosted by Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences (SMIMS) at Tadong, the delegates will dwell on various aspects of (drug) substance abuse and suicide from socio-economic and medical point of views, Sikkim Manipal University (SMU) Vice-Chancellor Brigadier (Rtd) SS Pabla said today.
The experts opinion on the twin vices will be relevant for Sikkim in particular, since the state has been dogged by the growth in the number of suicide cases over the years and its youths taking to abuse of banned substances.
Pabla said representative of government hospitals, Primary Health Centres (PHCs), NGOs, have been invited to attend the conference to update themselves about various initiatives at the social-medical level against suicide and drug addiction.
Substance Aabuse said
I have extensive experience working with people with substance abuse problems and how these problems interfere in their life.
Substance Aabuse