Each day about 12 Almaty citizens address to heal their relatives from alcohol and drug abuse - doctor

There is almost 10% decrease than in the last year. Of those patients at rehabilitation centres, 701 people were removed from registration, of whom, those alcoholic addicts - 575, and drug addicts - 126. 49% of them were healed. For instance, drug addicts are on control for over five years, and alcoholic addicts for three years. IF over this period the patient attends and receives treatment each month, he is unregistered as that who was healed. However, another half includes those who has changes their residence places, those who are sentenced, or died," said Sapar Rakhmensheev.

Just recently, the city's drug treatment centre and the rehabilitation centre for social adaptation were integrated with the centre for mental health. Now we send our psychiatrists and drug therapists to health care centres. The public is afraid to visit psychiatric and psychological experts. To avoid it, our experts work in hospitals in the six regions. We observe that the ordinary people have begun to shamelessly attend psychiatric and psychological experts more often. Each day, up to 12 parents visit us, and ask to heal their children. They complain about that their children do not want to treat be themselves. To get alcohol and drugs they commit various crimes, sell everything in home. Firstly, our aim is to provide them psychotherapeutic help, to change their minds," said the speaker.