Drug De-Addiction Cum Rehabilitation center with Training center and

Revenue generation Building

Introduction

Drug De-addiction
 Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug seeking
and use, and by neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain.
 Drug addiction is becoming a major health problem in India with some estimates
indicating that as many as 15 million people in India could become addicts by the end of
2004.
Mental illness and Life sufferers

 Mental illnesses are the most devastating and disabling of the diseases, affecting the
mankind, giving its victims and their families a life of suffering, trauma and travail.
 Nearly one percent of Humanity is suffering from this malady, of which nearly 20%
would become chronic. In the context of our country it means nearly one crore of our
people are victims of different forms of Mental illness and of whom 20 Lakhs are likely to
become chronic.
 Often the victims' entire personality becomes shattered due to dysfunctioning of their
mental faculty. They drift from social mainstream, remain castigated from immediate
neighborhood, as well as the society at large. What they need is not just medical
intervention but a multiple therapeutic approach to bring them back even to a
semblance of normal functionality.

Depression
 Depression is a serious medical illness. Symptoms can include:
 Sadness or low mood
 Loss of interest or pleasure in activities you used to enjoy
 Change in weight
 Difficulty sleeping or oversleeping
 Energy loss
 Feelings of worthlessness
 Thoughts of death or suicide
Depression can run in families, and usually starts between the ages of 15 and 30. It is much
more common in women. Women can also get postpartum depression after the birth of a baby.
Some people get seasonal affective disorder in the winter. Depression is one part of bipolar
disorder.
There are effective treatments for depression, including antidepressants and talk therapy. A
combination of both works best.
Personality Disorders
Schizophrenia
Anxiety
Relation between Drug addicts and mental ill persons

 A psychiatric problem
 An addiction problem
 It is difficult to say which came first. What is important to note is that the person is
currently having both problems and both have to be addressed together. A relapse in
one of the two areas can trigger a relapse in the other.
 A psychological relation between the drug addicts and mentally ill (psychiatric) or life
suffering people.
 In 90% of the cases it is found that the basic level for addiction starts from person does
not know to handle critical situation of problems in life, he then gets into depression and
the root of the drug addiction starts eventually.
 Trauma, depression, lonely feeling, carelessness are some of the important factors
deciding drug addiction.
Training Centre Plan

 Although a substantial numbers of persons are affected by drug and alcohol abuse and
dependence, there are several gaps in service provision.
 These include inadequate number of services, inadequate treatment seeking by
substance users and also lack of trained manpower in the country.

Revenue Generation

It has been found that only 42 of the de-addiction centers are being aided only a few
centers (about 42, mainly those in the north-eastern states of the country) Functioning
of Government De-Addiction Centers. Most centers depend on State Government for
recurring expenditure .Evaluation exercises have revealed
 Variability in service provision
 Poor record maintenance
 Shortage of staff
 Lack of capacity of existing staff (i.e. lack of training on substance use disorders)
 It has been difficult to trace most of these centers. UNESCO (2009) has recently
highlighted the difficulty encountered in accessing information about many of the
centers
Receive recurrent grants from the union health ministry. Most others have been dependent on
the state governments for the recurring expenditure (on staff salaries, supplies etc.). It is
understandable that the state Governments may have varying degrees of health priorities;
consequently the funds provided by the state governments have also been variable in nature.

Aim
To design a drug de-addiction cum rehabilitation center for people with drug addiction and for
those persons with mental illness (psychiatric).This will totally base on the design of the building
in order to recover or rehabilitate the persons by understanding the terms of psychological
treatment through the building envelope.
Set up a "Home Away from Home" offering solace to the suffering individual and family alike,
where the atmosphere would be of a large extended family in which the residents would get the
comfort, security, love and kindness of the family, with psychosocial Rehabilitation Programmes
and medical care administered by experts in respective areas.
I believe that addiction as a disease affects every aspect of the afflicted person's life; at the
physical and mental level, in relationships, and even causes the person to lose all sense of
morality. The disease has a way of recurring and only a total change in attitude can bring any
meaningful recovery.
For Training Centre:
In the proposed approach, the staff from the district hospitals would be provided the training
pertaining to treatment of substance use disorders. Referral of patients that need more
intensive intervention and specialist skills (such as those with associated physical or psychiatric
co morbidity and multiple drug use) can be made to the medical colleges. Capacity building
through training of staff is an important step in improving treatment seeking as well as quality
of treatment that is provided to substance users.
For Revenue generation:
Designing a building that would generate revenue for the proposed Centre, as according to the
study stated above.
Objectives
 Research on psychological basis of persons with mental illness, depression, anxiety etc...
 Study on how to recover drug-addicts and help rehabilitating mentally ill and life
suffering people.
 Emphasis on designing-landscaped area, interiors, exteriors and the whole building
envelope in order to suite the proposed function psychologically.
 Research and deep study on Government’s policy to Train officials for such people and
fund these type of centers in India

Scope
 The design will be the first of its kind in developing a center that will cater drug de-
addiction and rehabilitation center along with the training center and making the whole
center a sustaining one in terms of revenue required to operate it in a successful
manner.
 Building form, interiors and landscaped areas will be highlights of the design
 The campus will also include residential facilities for staff member(nurses, ward boys and
hospitality staff)

Expected Outcome of the Thesis Project

 Design Elements on how to deal with the buildings built psychologically for such kind
persons
 Research study on psychologically based built architecture
 Recovery - a journey of happiness
 Nurturing relationships
 Positive substitutes for addiction
 Building Psycho social Rehabilitation Service
 Learning to recover wards suffering from mental disability of varying degrees and Types

Case Study
 CADABAM'S Group
Gulakamale Village,
Near Kaggalipura, 17th Mile Kanakapura Road,
Post Taralu,
Bangalore-560082.
Phone: +91 - 9611194949
Mail: info@cadabams.org
  HOPE TRUST
# 35 C, MLA COLONY, ROAD NO.12, BANJARA HILLS
HYDERABAD - 500 034 (ANDHRA PRADESH) INDIA
Tel.: +91 83746 01855 / +91 78930 03070
Fax: +91 40 2330 2230
E-mail: info@hopetrustindia.com

 Muktangan Rehabilitation Center

Mohanwadi, off Pune-Alandi Road,
Yerawada, Pune
Maharashtra
411006

Site Proposed

Odanadi (Mysore-based non-governmental organization) -Mysore, Karnataka