Health Promotion and Policy: Addressing Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Young Adults

HEALTH PROMOTION AND POLICY
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Table of Contents
1. Health Organisation.....................................................................................................................3
2. Background to the health issue....................................................................................................3
3. Aims and objectives of policy of advocacy.................................................................................7
4. Recommendations........................................................................................................................8
Reference List................................................................................................................................11
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1. Health Organisation
This report is based on healthcare and SPYM India is the chosen organisation for this report.
The full form of SPYM is Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses. This is a national
organisation and is working for mobilising the community, socio-economic development and
health care. They are working for the last three decades. The founder of SPYM is Dr Zeenat and
her college mates of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in the year 1986 (SPYM.org. 2019).
The headquarters are there in Delhi. The main aim of this NGO is to treat and rehabilitate the
young drug addicts. This NGO has expanded them all over India and there are many people
volunteering different programs to give benefits to thousands of people. The main mission of the
NGO is to help underprivileged section of the Indian society. With the available resources,
SPYM India wants to increase their potentials and abilities. They aim at giving quality services
to society. SPYM is taking different approaches for drug treatment and rehabilitation. There are
currently 200 employees working in the organisation and is known as a non-profitable
organisation. SPYM has over 28 years of expertise in the field of Drug Abuse Prevention & early
intervention among Children, adolescents, youth & adults. SPYM has launched a special
initiative in India to reform and rehabilitate juveniles in conflict with law and with a dependency
on narcotics at first of its kind specialized centre for children in addiction & crime. The centre is
operated without any external financial support. Under the Income Tax Act Section 80G and
12A tax exemption is granted to SPYM (SPYM.org. 2019). They have their first treatment centre
for the drug in 1985. All kinds of services are provided to inpatient and outpatient. This is the
only company who gives special drug services for juveniles in different cases. They are having
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projects in many sectors like health, capacity building, and intervention program for homeless,
survey and research and a proper skill development theory.
2. Background to the health issue
SYPM India has many partners who are supporting their causes and helping in getting solutions
for the affected people in the society. They are Population Foundation of India, International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Ministry of women and child development,
Ministry of social justice and empowerment (Government of India), Delhi Urban Shelter
Improvement Board (DUSIB) and many more. There are major health issues in the young
population of India (Tanner-Smith and Lipsey 2015). For this report, the main health issue to
focus on is drug and alcohol addiction in young adult’s population group.
2.1 Young people getting addicted to drug and alcohol
It is seen that young people are frequently getting addicted to drugs and alcohol these days
(Abracen and Looman 2016). There are many reasons as to why this addiction is taking place.
Given below are the reasons which need to be carefully seen to understand drug and alcohol
addiction in the young generation.
 Environmental factors like the beliefs and attitude of the family encourage the young
members to use drugs. Environment plays an initial role in addiction to a drug.
 Genetics is one such factor contributing to drug addiction. This speeds up or delays the
progression of the disease.
 The influence of other people plays an important role in addiction to drugs and alcohol.
The social scene of teenagers moves around smoking and drinking (Degenhardt et al.
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