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Over 60 per cent Former Drug Users Return to Addiction
ABU DHABI - Between 60 and 65 per cent of former drug users return to addiction and the causes of relapse are the same that had led them to addiction in the first place, according to a senior official from the National Centre for Rehabilitation (NCR).
In a report published in the December issue of the ‘999’ magazine, a publication of the Ministry of Interior (MoI), NCR Director-General Dr Hamed Abdullah Al Ghaferi noted that drug addiction is a complicated and chronic malaise with 50 per cent of addicts suffering from psychological disorders.
He stressed that the reasons of those returning to addiction are similar to those when they had started using drugs such as family problems like divorce, polygamy, ignorance of parents or young inexperienced fathers.
“Other reasons leading to drug addiction are bad peers and weak attachment to religious values,” said the report.
It added that addicts, who have undergone rehabilitation, often have trouble returning to the family and community life. “The community looks down upon them and there is also a lack of confidence from the family as well,” explained Mohamed Al Hosani, a sociologist at NCR.
Abdulwahid Imam, a former major-general and an expert in police sciences at the Police College, attributed the return of many rehabilitated addicts to rejection by the community.
“The Arab communities often issue stronger verdicts than the courts of law. A judge may find lenient circumstances so would pronounce a light judgement.
However, Arab communities tend to issue harsh judgement without considering other related issues,” he pointed out.
Thus, the rehabilitated person would find himself an outcast with only two options – either to return to the rehab centre or return to addiction.
Imam also noted that some families avoid sending their children for treatment and rehabilitation fearing social stigma.
Al Hosani stressed the need to change this negative community view towards addicts, who “should be treated like a sick person, not a criminal.”
The National Rehabilitation Centre is the sole specialised centre in the UAE.
It has partnered with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Regional Office for Anti-Narcotics to build specialised national capacities in the field of addiction treatment as well as conduct a joint survey on the size of addiction problem in the UAE in order to formulate a strategy to tackle the problem.
The centre has also teamed up with Shaikh Khalifa Fund and Takatof Programme to help in bringing back the rehabilitated addicts in the mainstream.
Dr Al Ghaferi said a women’s addiction treatment centre will be set up in 2010 as addiction has also been found among young women.
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