Kristina Alpatova, psychologist-consultant at the Rehabilitation and Psychological Support Center “Creek”. Rehabilitation center for alcoholics and drug addicts "stream" opened in the Palkinsky district

In the Pskov region, the creation of a new rehabilitation center for drug addicts begins. This became known today at a conference on this issue in the Administration of the region.

Our region already has positive experience organization of similar institutions - 10 years ago, a center for rehabilitation and psychological support"Stream". One of the first to pass state certification. A team of anonymous alcohol and drug addicts is preparing for a friendly match with the national team of the authorities of the Pskov region. At the gate, Eugene, an experienced drug addict. I tried drugs for the first time at the age of 14. Then, he says, there were attempts to recover and new breakdowns.

EVGENIY:
And there were breakdowns, breakdowns, breakdowns, because there always appears some kind of self-confidence, arrogance that I can, if I don’t inject, then I’m no longer a drug addict. Well, it's not. My choice was obvious. I had no doubt that I would go to this center, because I always lacked God in my life.

Fellowship with God is one of the integrated program rehabilitation. morning and evening prayer included, as mandatory, in the daily routine. And also: labor obedience, psychological trainings and consultations. Only 12 steps to recovery. To come here, they say in the center, is to take the first step.

KRISTINA ALPATOVA, PSYCHOLOGIST-CONSULTANT OF THE CENTER FOR REHABILITATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT "RUCHEY":
The main thing, the main thing, is to start all the same, accept impotence and look into your inner world and talk about it, that it’s bad and hard for me, and not hide and run away from it. Learn to make friends, love, hear, listen, building relationships with people, contact with people.

To date, the Ruchey center has 13 patients from all over Russia. Pskov residents undergo a rehabilitation course free of charge. Several people ended up here with certificates for rehabilitation. They are allocated and financed by the Regional Administration. In 2014, 10 people received rehabilitation certificates. But this, the conference participants stressed today, is not yet a guarantee of a normal life.

SERGEY SMIRNOV, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REHABILITATION CENTERS:
Even if a former drug addict decides to give up non-medical drug use, quits this disease, undergoes rehabilitation and resocialization, not always, but very often, his return to the place where he is registered and lives leads to the fact that he falls into his usual him a deadly society.

MAXIM SAPozhNIKOV, HEAD OF THE UFSKN IN PSKOV REGION:
Here it is necessary to consider, if possible, offer ways to solve the whole problem. integrated approach. What do we mean by this - that from the moment a drug user is identified to the moment they return to normal life must be a big way.

To solve this problem, a new Center for work with drug users is being created in our region. His patients will be able not only to undergo rehabilitation, but also to gain work skills.

IGOR VINOGRADSKY, HEAD OF SPECIAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT, PSKOV REGION ADMINISTRATION:
The goals of the project are - organization effective work on the return of the drug user to a normal society, the creation of agricultural production as jobs for drug users who have undergone rehabilitation and resocialization programs.

The organizers timed the scientific conference to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Ruchey rehabilitation center. In honor of the anniversary, the team of the center played football with the team of the authorities of the Pskov region. Such a match has already become a tradition, which allows to draw attention to the problem of rehabilitation of drug addicts and the work of rehabilitation centers.

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