Singh Shalini, Chadda Rakesh
MD, DM, Associate Professor, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. Email:
MD, Former Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
BJPsych Int. 2025 May;22(2):55-58. doi: 10.1192/bji.2025.3. Epub 2025 Mar 10.
The South Asian region, including India, faces an increased prevalence of illicit drug use. Key challenges include rising opioid use, injecting drug use and spread of stimulant use from some pockets to other regions of the country. Challenges faced are poor surveillance, lack of evidence-based and structured prevention programmes, wide treatment gaps and inadequate social capital for reintegration of substance users into society. The drug control efforts in India have resulted in an improved drug offence surveillance system, increased community awareness, a growing network of drug treatment centres and resource-building measures. India has made pioneering efforts in the field of harm reduction in the South Asian region. The steps taken have the potential of applicability across other South Asian, as well as most low- and middle-income, countries around the world.
包括印度在内的南亚地区，非法药物使用的流行率呈上升趋势。主要挑战包括阿片类药物使用增加、注射吸毒以及兴奋剂使用从该国一些地区蔓延到其他地区。面临的挑战有监测不力、缺乏循证和结构化的预防方案、治疗差距大以及社会资本不足，无法让吸毒者重新融入社会。印度的毒品管制工作已带来改进的毒品犯罪监测系统、提高了社区意识、毒品治疗中心网络不断扩大以及资源建设措施。印度在南亚地区的减少伤害领域做出了开创性努力。所采取的措施有可能适用于其他南亚国家以及世界上大多数低收入和中等收入国家。
