To create awareness on the adverse health impact of addictive substances and assist individuals in quitting them, NIMHANS will conduct a workshop for nursing personnel from Namma Clinics in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Through this workshop, NIMHANS aims to bridge the gap between primary prevention and tertiary interventions for substance use disorders, as well as for the physical illnesses directly resulting from, or aggravated by, the use of addictive substances.
Two vital resource materials, Nitya Amulya, a video-based learning resource for promoting substance-free life in women, and Integrated Intervention for General Healthcare Settings, a module in a flip-book format, for guiding healthcare providers to provide substance use cessation interventions to individuals seeking care for various health problems, will be released at the workshop.
