Shanghai Drug Abuse Treatment Centre

Last updated February 21, 2019

The Shanghai Drug Abuse Treatment Centre, or SDATC (simplified Chinese :上海市自愿戒毒医疗康复中心; traditional Chinese :上海市自願戒毒醫療康復中心; pinyin :Shànghǎishì Zìyuàn Jièdú Yīliáo Kāngfù Zhōngxīn), is a governmental organization providing drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation services in Shanghai, China. SDATC is the only government-supported centre in Shanghai and was established in 1997 on the approval of Shanghai Narcotic Control Commission and Shanghai Public Health Bureau.^[1]

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Goals

SDATC's goals are:^[1]

To provide treatment and other services to drug users
To train university students, doctors from other national areas, postgraduate students, continuing education courses, and other specific training programs in the field of drug dependence and treatment.
To promote and develop research on drug treatment through the participation in various programs financed by national and international foundations.
To interact with the local communities in the promotion of anti-drug activities
To be involved as consultants in policy making process regarding drug abuse prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.

The term drug user is often used to refer to a person who consumes an illegal psychoactive substance. The term "user" is typically employed to refer to someone who is a drug user, abuser, or addict. Drug users are sometimes referred to as "heads", depending on the drug used, i.e., pothead, hophead, crackhead, etc.

Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin or amphetamines. The general intent is to enable the patient to confront substance dependence, if present, and cease substance abuse to avoid the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme abuse. Treatment includes medication for depression or other disorders, counseling by experts and sharing of experience with other addicts.

Services

Shanghai Drug Abuse Treatment Centre provides a number of drug treatment services including:^[1]

Methadone tapering detoxification
Medical treatment for other physical and psychiatric conditions
Relapse prevention
Group therapy
HIV/AIDS prevention education
Family education
Hotline counseling

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Much of the current spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in China has been through intravenous drug use and through prostitution. In China, the number of people affected by HIV has been estimated at between 430,000 and 1.5 million; somewhere below or around 0.1% of the population. The CIA World Factbook as of 2012 estimated the percentage of adults living with HIV/AIDS in China at 0.1%, the same as in Japan and less than in many European Union countries such as the United Kingdom (0.2%) and Austria (0.3%). According to a United Nations report in 2001, the main distributors of HIV were the sharing of needles among drug users and problems during blood donations. In many rural areas of China during the 1990s, for example, faulty blood collection programs infected a large number of people with HIV.

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References

1 2 3 4 "Shanghai Drug Abuse Treatment Centre". United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime . Retrieved 4 October 2014.

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[unodc-1] 1 2 3 4 "Shanghai Drug Abuse Treatment Centre". United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime . Retrieved 4 October 2014.