Drug treatment clinics are made functional in government healthcare facility, like district hospital, civil hospitals, and department of psychiatry in medical colleges. The purpose of these DTCs is to provide exclusive outpatient services for patients with any kind of substance use problems. The DTCs are provided dedicated staff like a medical officer, counselor and nurse, which will work on contractual basis to provide drug treatment services. The DTC services include pharmacological management in form of Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT), Buprenorphine maintenance treatment (BMT), detoxification from all drugs of use, long-term pharmacological management, smoking cessation; psychosocial services like individual counseling, group therapy; and referral services as need be.
All the DTCs provide medicines free of cost. Moreover, it has also been envisaged that the DTCs will also provide community based services in form of awareness programs, information and education material and early detection. Moreover, some of these DTCs will also be equipped with dealing with special groups such as women and children.
Drug Treatment Clinics list
1. Department of Psychiatry, King Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital, Mumbai
2. Drug De-addiction Centre, Bhardawadi
3. Rajawadi Hospital,Rajawadi
4. Civil Hospital, Osmanabad
5. Department of Psychiatry, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences , Imphal
6. District Hospital, Thoubal
7. District Hospital, Bishnupur
8. District Hospital, Churachandpur
9. Department of Psychiatry and De-addiction Centre, PGIMS, Rohtak
10. Civil Hospital, Kapurthala, Punjab
11. Civil Hospital, Bathinda, Punjab
12. Department of Psychiatry and De-addiction Centre, King George Medical University, Lucknow
13. Department of Psychiatry, Kota Medical College, Kota
14. Kotla Mubarkpur , New Delhi
15. DTC Kohima (Naga Hospital Authority Kohima, Nagaland)
16. DTC, Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh
17. DTC, Agra Medical College, Agra
18. DTC, New Civil Hospital, Surat
19. DTC, District Hospital, Mapusa
20. DTC, Shri Bhausaheb Hire Government Medical college and hospital, Dhule
21. Drug Treatment Clinic , Madras Medical College,Kilpauk , Chennai
22. Drug Treatment Clinic , GMC Nagpur
22. Drug Treatment Clinic , IMH Hyderabad
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