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My sister wants to know about National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) of AIIMS. So someone is here who will tell me from where she can get information about National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) of AIIMS?

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The Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, AIIMS was established in the year 1988.

It was functional from the premises of the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, New Delhi.

It was upgraded as the National Centre (National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre) and is fully operational from its new premises in Ghaziabad, Delhi-NCR since April 2003.

The centre has well qualified multi-disciplinary faculty and staff (medical doctors, pre-clinical scientists, social scientists, research staff, nursing staff, laboratory personnel and administrative staff).

The centre carries out the relevant hematological, biochemical laboratory tests to monitor health damage.

As you are looking for information about National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) of AIIMS, so here are following information:

AIIMS National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC)

The centre has been involved in:
Assessing magnitude of addiction problem in the country
Health education& prevention of addictive disorders in the country
Capacity building & human resourcedevelopment-including training of several categories of staff
Establishment and development of laboratory services to detect drugs of abuse in body fluids and health damage
OPD, specialty clinics, ward and community clinics in urban-slums of Delhi
Documentation, publication of resource material and creation of database
Providing clinical care to patients-outpatient, inpatient and community based -through daily
Research

Following is a brief overview of recent contributions:
Development of Models of Care
Capacity Building
Collaborative research with National/International agencies
Oral Substitution Treatment (OST) using oral morphine, buprenorphine, buprenorphine & naloxone and methadone
Policy and Planning

Other significant achievements of the centre are:
PhD Programme in the area of Addiction Psychiatry started since 2010
DM (Addiction Psychiatry) Programme started since year 2015
In past three years Centre’s faculty had several important research projects (N=21) on ‘Addictive Disorders”, funded by National and International agencies.
One of the major significant achievements in recent times has been that the NDDTC was designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre on Substance Abuse (2012-2016)

Contacts
National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre
Sector-19, Kamla Nehru Nagar
C.G.O. Complex, Ghaziabad(U.P.)
Tel: 0120-2788974, Fax: 0120-2788979
nddtc@aiims.ac.in