According to her, private rehabilitation centers for people with addictions are closing in Bishkek, which is related to the use of unacceptable treatment methods, as well as violence and humiliation. "This is indisputable," emphasizes the expert.
Violence is not a method of treatment! So what should addicts and their families do now? State rehabilitation programs are absent, and short detoxification does not solve the problem. Existing private centers raise concerns, and the situation remains tense," she says.
Estebesova added that drug addicts "return to the streets and the same environment where their former substances await them, without any support." Some of them, according to her information, managed to enter the remaining centers thanks to the help of their parents.
"We must close those institutions where violence and cruelty are practiced and punish such actions. But we cannot leave a vacuum," she noted.
Addiction is a disease, not a crime. The rehabilitation process must be long-term and professional. If the state closes private institutions, it must offer adequate alternatives," added the director of "Socium."
She also raised a number of questions:
- Where are the state rehabilitation centers?
- Where are the long-term support programs?
- Where are the specialists: psychiatrists, narcologists, psychologists, and social workers?
- Where is the help for panicking families?
The problem of addiction to psychoactive substances and access to treatment, according to Estebesova, is extremely relevant: thousands of people in Kyrgyzstan suffer from drug addiction.
The situation is exacerbated by new synthetic and pharmaceutical drugs, which raises particular concern, noted the doctor.
"Detoxification is carried out in state narcological institutions; however, rehabilitation is not provided there. Although two rehabilitation departments (one of them is state-run at the Republican Center for Narcology, and the other is 'Chance' under the public organization 'Socium') showed decent results, private centers have failed to meet rehabilitation tasks. The question arises: where is the system that should provide assistance to addicts in the process of rehabilitation and resocialization? This is a critical situation that needs to be discussed openly," continued Estebesova.
In Kyrgyzstan, as she reiterated, there are no state rehabilitation institutions offering:
- long-term treatment for addictions;
- support after detox;
- psychological and psychiatric assistance;
- social reintegration.
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