Ashtankar Himanshu Jayantrao, Talapalliwar Manoj Rajanna
Department of Community Medicine, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
Indian J Psychol Med. 2017 Jul-Aug;39(4):436-440. doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.211760.
Substance abuse is known public health problem in the world. Felt need of treatment and barriers in seeking treatment are important for successful treatment of addictions. Therefore, this study was designed to understand the pattern (type) of substance abuse among residents of urban slum and to study the felt need and barriers for the treatment of substance abuse among substance abusers in urban slum areas of the central India.
A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in slum area in central India.
The smokeless tobacco (92.5%) and alcohol (70.35%) were the most common substances used in the study population. More than half (60.4%) of study participants were felt the need of de-addiction but in reality very few approached for treatment for their addiction. The most common barriers were unawareness about place of availability of treatment, absence of any health problem and the confidence of handling their own drug problem, and dependency on substance.
There was huge gap in the felt need and actual treatment-seeking practice due to treatment barriers in the treatment of substance abuse.
药物滥用是全球公认的公共卫生问题。对治疗的感知需求以及寻求治疗过程中的障碍对于成瘾治疗的成功至关重要。因此，本研究旨在了解城市贫民窟居民中药物滥用的模式（类型），并研究印度中部城市贫民窟地区药物滥用者对药物滥用治疗的感知需求和障碍。
在印度中部的贫民窟地区进行了一项基于社区的横断面研究。
无烟烟草（92.5%）和酒精（70.35%）是研究人群中最常用的物质。超过一半（60.4%）的研究参与者感到有戒毒的需求，但实际上很少有人因成瘾问题寻求治疗。最常见的障碍是不知道治疗机构的位置、没有任何健康问题以及自信能够自行解决毒品问题，还有对物质的依赖。
由于药物滥用治疗中的障碍，在感知需求和实际寻求治疗行为之间存在巨大差距。
