Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana

Our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana is an evidence-based treatment process that is highly personalized. Our recovery model is based on a comprehensive model, which incorporates globally established clinical treatments with holistic health-related activities, tailored to the cultural and social background of our patients. The stages of care we give are detailed below.

Step 1: Intensive Intake and Psychological Assessment

Our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana does not assume anything when starting the treatment journey, but rather understands. Each incoming patient is evaluated with a detailed intake that is administered by our team of physicians, psychiatrists, and clinical counselors. This preliminary assessment is holistic and multi-dimensional and includes:

• Full physical health assessment- checking on the health of the organs, nutrition status, cardiovascular status and presence of any infections or physical complications associated with substance use.
• In-depth substance use history – what substances have been used, how long, in what amounts, how, and what prior efforts at quitting have been like.
• Psychiatric and psychological assessment – any mental health issues like depression, anxiety disorder, PTSD, bipolar or psychosis that must be addressed with the addiction.
• Social and family assessment – knowledge of the home setting, relationship functioning, work-life, and financial strain, social support system of the patient.
• Personal goal-setting – together discovering what the patient wants to accomplish with treatment and what life they want to recreate.

This preliminary evaluation spends time to get to know the individual- not merely his/her addiction. Any given treatment plan cannot be effective without this profound grounding of understanding. We carry out our intake process in the most respectful, warm and non-judgmental professional manner that makes sure that the patients feel at home and not threatened by their first experience with us.

Step 2: Detoxification under Medical Supervision

After the evaluation, the patients in our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana are taken into the detoxification phase, the most crucial phase, of systematically cleansing the body of addictive drugs that have been built up over time. Detox is not only physiological but also a physical process and unless done under the supervision of a professional medical practitioner it can be hazardous and even life threatening based on the substance and the length of use.

Detoxification has a misinterpreted concept. The common misconception is that recovery starts when an addict simply stops using- but the process of physical recovery is not as simple as that. Following months or years of substance dependency, the human body has reorganized its biochemistry in accordance with the existence of the addictive substance. In the case of the substance being eliminated, the body responds through withdrawal a set of symptoms that may be extremely uncomfortable or even life-threatening.

The most common withdrawal symptoms to be treated and controlled at our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana are:

• Extreme nausea, stomach cramps, vomiting and diarrhea.
• Several headaches, pains in joints, and pains that involve the whole body.
• Excessive sweating, fever, and chills and chills.
• Sleeplessness, irritability, and acute sleeping disorder.
• Severe anxiety, panic attacks, and emotional instability.
• Risky urges and impulsivity.
• In extreme cases – tremors, hallucinations, or seizures.

Our highly qualified team of doctors takes all the patients under detox and constantly monitors them, giving all the necessary drugs to help the patient with the withdrawal process, avoiding complications and stabilizing the patient in the most effective way. We do not want to merely pass through the detox, but we want to do that in such a manner that the patient comes out physically stable, mentally clear, and emotionally prepared to fully participate in the following stages of therapeutic treatment.

Step 3: Evidence-Based Counseling and Psychotherapy

After it is safe to detoxify and stabilize the body, the actual psychological process of recuperation commences. Individual counseling and psychotherapy is the most significant pillar of long-term recovery in our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana. Every patient is assigned to a specific counselor with whom he or she has a personal and private therapy session during the time of his/her stay.

Our counseling model is based on various evidence-based therapeutic models:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): This is a highly proven method that aids patients to determine the deep-rooted thought patterns and cognitive distortions that fuel the addictive behavior. This understanding of the role of thoughts in the process of emotions and behavior allows patients to identify negative thought patterns and replace them with more beneficial and healthy reactions. CBT also provides patients with effective relapse prevention skills in dealing with real-world triggers.

Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET): A lot of patients enter into rehab with a lot of ambivalence on whether they want to get clean- part of them desires to get clean, and the other part of them is attached to the comfort of their substance use. MET is also developed to overcome this ambivalence, to develop internal drive and dedication to change in the patient, restoring his/her connection with personal values, purpose, and motivation to become sober.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): DBT offers patients with a challenging problem with emotional dysregulation (a frequent problem in patients with co-occurring mental health conditions) with remarkably effective methods of managing their emotions, distress, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindful self-awareness.

Trauma-Informed Therapy: A significant number of people in addiction have a background of unresolved trauma, such as abuse, loss, neglect or violence, that are at the core of their substance use. Our counselors are also trained on trauma-sensitive modalities that enable the patients to safely process these experiences in a manner that facilitates healing and not re-traumatization.

Step 4: Community Healing and Group Therapy

Individual therapy deals with the most individual aspects of addiction- group therapy deals with something equally crucial: with the sense of a common humanity and mutual healing. Our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana offers group therapy with experienced therapists and assembles patients in diverse stages of their rehabilitation process to form a strong therapeutic community.

The group therapy environment achieves a number of things that are impossible to achieve in personal sessions:

• It breaks the seclusion and privacy that addiction prefers to be in and instead promotes transparency and society.
• It establishes true accountability of peers – patients encourage one another by telling the truth, sharing personal experiences, and lifting each other.
• It provides a variety of insights – listening to the stories of other people who went through the same problems paves the way to new thoughts and solutions.
• It also restores social skills – most patients have been socially withdrawn because of their addiction; group sessions help patients to learn social skills again to communicate, listen and connect.
• It offers live evidence that recovery can be achieved – the success of fellow patients seen in their later stages of their journey gives hope to those more at the start of their journey.

Step 5: Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)

Behavioral therapy is not adequate in a considerable percentage of patients, especially in severe opioid, alcohol or benzodiazepine dependence, where the neurochemistry of the brain has been significantly disturbed by extensive substance use. Medication-Assisted Treatment is a lawful and evidence-based aspect of our clinical program, done at our Nasha Mukti Kendra, Ludhiana, and prescribed and administered only by qualified physicians.

MAT implies using the FDA-approved and medically tested drugs which lessen the cravings, stabilize the brain chemistry and prevent the relapse in the most hazardous areas of early recovery. They are never taken independently as a treatment option, but they are always combined with counseling, behavioral therapy, and holistic psychosocial services to offer the optimal results. Dosage is meticulously tailored by our physicians on an individual clinical profile of each patient and the patient is closely monitored during the medication course, where it may be adjusted according to the progress and response.

MAT in our facility is time-constrained, open, and goal-focused toward the ultimate objective of full sobriety. Patients and their families are perfectly informed on the aim, length and anticipated outcomes of any medication which is part of the treatment plan.

Step 6: Yoga, Meditation and mindfulness-based recovery

Yoga and meditation have been long-accepted practices in the Ayurvedic and Yogic traditions – and now are backed up by a substantial body of current scientific research – are part of the treatment program in our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana. They are not recreational activities but are purposely clinical therapeutic interventions being administered on a daily basis as a systematic wellness treatment.

The frequent use of yoga in the process of addiction recovery has quantifiable advantages in various dimensions:

• Physical therapy: Recovery of core strength, flexibility, coordination, recovery of lung capacity, and re-energizing a body ravaged by substances.
• Balancing of the nervous system: Yoga acts directly on the parasympathetic nervous system, decreasing the chronic stress system that triggers craving and impulsive behavior.
• Hormonal rebalancing: Frequent yoga can stabilize cortisol, dopamine, serotonin levels – neurotransmitters that have been severely disturbed by chronic substance use.
• Emotional processing: Movement practices aid in the discharge of the body of stored emotional tension and trauma in a safe and gradual manner.
• Mindfulness and meditation teach patients the art of non-reactive awareness – the capacity to be aware of thoughts and cravings but not to act upon them. This ability is deeply emancipating to recovering addicts who have been all their lives, slaves to impulsive responses. The daily schedule of our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana includes pranayama (breathwork), guided visualization, body scan meditation, and mindful movement practices, all taught by experienced wellness instructors who are aware of the unique needs of the patients in recovery.

Step 7: Family Therapy and Rehabilitation Support

Addiction does not occur in a vacuum, it occurs within a family and spreads through all the relationships that a person is involved in. When most patients come to our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana, their families have years of emotional distress, financial stress, broken trust, and long-standing anxiety. Children have been brought up in non-stable homes. Husbands and wives have borne with impossibilities. Parents have grown old in the burden of despairing concern.

Our family therapy program is founded on the understanding that real recovery must be a healing process both at the personal and family level. We offer:

• Structured Family Counseling Sessions: Therapeutic sessions involving patients and their families together (or separately, as needed) to initiate healing the relationship, and rebuild communication and trust under the stewardship of an experienced therapist.
• Family Education Workshops: We hold special workshops which are created with the express purpose of teaching the family members about the neuroscience of addiction, recovery phases, pitfalls, and how they can react to the actions of their loved one in a manner that will support the recovery process instead of undermining it.
• Codependency Awareness and Healing: Our counselors assist family members in recognizing enabling behaviors that inadvertently have extended the addiction and offer sympathetic advice on how to create healthier relationships.
• Sibling and Children Support: We understand that the younger members of the family, especially children, have certain emotional weight to bear when a parent or sibling is addicted. Specialized age-appropriate support is available for them as well
• When families get into the recovery process with their loved one, the results are much improved. The best safeguard against relapse on the part of a patient once home is a healed family environment.

Step 8: Recreation and Life Skills Training

Recovery does not merely mean the lack of substance use, but the fullness of life, its purpose, and enjoyment. Emptiness and boredom are one of the most widespread causes of a relapse as the life of a person who has stopped using substances and, consequently, no more takes up his/her time, social life, and emotional world. We invest heavily in assisting patients to find and create new sources of joy and creativity, identity, and purpose at our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana.

Such recreational and life skills program as we have are:

• Art and Creative Therapy: Patients create paintings, drawings, clay moulding and a variety of other creative exercises, which gives them a healthy emotional release and a feeling of being competent and expressive again.
• Music Therapy:Formatted music experiences, such as learning a musical instrument, singing in a group, or listening to music directed by the therapist have been shown to have a therapeutic effect, including emotional regulation, mood elevation, and social connectivity.
• Physical Fitness and Sports: A specific fitness program that incorporates gym workouts, outdoor exercise, organized sports, and physical conditioning will assist patients to restore stamina, self-image and natural release of dopamine found in exercise.
• Vocational and Life Skills Training: Patients are exposed to practical skills basic computer literacy, financial management, communication skills and time management, all of which provides them with a successful reintegration in the working and social life.
• Gardening and Nature Therapy: Natural surroundings and the meditative process of working with plants and greenery has proven to have a substantial mental health impact, especially with patients undergoing depression and anxiety during their road to recovery.
• Organized Journaling: Supported journaling activities can assist patients in monitoring their emotional development, identifying their intentions, grappling with traumatic memories, and developing the reflective self-experience that lies at the heart of lasting recovery.

Step 9: Value Reconstruction and Spiritual Growth

All individuals who come to our Nasha Mukti Kendra in Ludhiana have, to some extent, lost touch with something fundamental about themselves, with their sense of self-worth, values, with their relations to something larger than themselves, and with their faith in the possibility of a better life. Addiction systematically denudes individuals of such anchors leaving behind a sense of shame, emptiness, meaninglessness, and despair.

We do not have a sectarian or religiously prescriptive program of spiritual development. It is non-judgmental, reflective, and patient-centered and aimed at assisting every patient to reconnect with his or her own deep values, meaning, and sources of inner strength. By inspirational speeches of reformed people to share their personal healing experience, directed philosophical dialogues, gratitude journeys, and formalized self-reflection training, patients are welcomed to:

• Instill a new value system, which will ground them through tough times.
• Develop true self-compassion – get out of shame and self-blame into acceptance and progress.
• Have something deeper than personal pleasure and pain – something to live and fight.
• Learn to have a sense of accountability and responsibility to themselves, their families and their communities.
• Realign themselves with their spiritual tradition, community, or individual practice that brings them strength and peace.
• This aspect of recovery is what the former patients usually refer to as one of the most transformative parts of the whole process of healing. It is at the point that one finds his or her greatest reasons to live and therefore remaining sober is not something that they are aiming at but a form of living.