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Peer led drug rehabilitation center in Delhi " The New Beginning of New Life" members interacting with young members of Radio club

Mr.Ganesh Thapliyal and Mr.Heera Singh Dhami from a peer led drug rehabilitation center the Beginning of a New Life were invited to speak to young members of Pehachaan Radio Club Balbhawan Mandi Village Delhi. Mr.Ganesh and Mr.Heera are  drug free for than a decade recovery and proud of being drug free and believes in total abstinence from all mood altering drug including alcohol. They shared their real life experiences,attitudes  related to their childhood and young age and how they suffered because of drug abuse and what they lost and how they overcome. Sharing with these young people was itself was a new experience for them. Although, they have been conducting similar sharing based  prevention program among college and school going population. This event was organised by Nada India  in  collaboration with Jawahar Balbhawan Mandi on 8th Nov.2011.   They also asserted that harm related to drug and alcohol abuse can be reduced by way of   adopting 
comprehensive total abstinence based peer led drug treatment and rehabilitation  approach and policy at an individual ,rehabilitation center and National level.  They also asserted that new Government policy should provide scope to facilitate the spread of  peer led rehabilitation centers in the country as these peer led centers are accessible and affordable to the poor  and marginalized sections of the the society . Both of them got their treatment from Sahara House .  The session was facilitated by Mr.Suneel Vatsyayan 

 
Mr.Ganesh Thapliyal and Mr.Heera Singh Dhami from a peer led drug rehabilitation center the Beginning of a New Life 
Pehachaan Radio club Balbhawan Mandi : An initiative of Nada India and Balbhawan 

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