The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology is a state institution where they provide emergency and planned assistance to people with drug, alcohol and game addiction. The clinic has developed programs that are selected for each patient depending on his inclinations and contribute to effective recovery.
Description
The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology appeared on the basis of the NPC for the prevention of drug addiction. The staff of specialists is staffed by doctors of the highest category, many of whom conduct scientific and research activities, have extensive experience working with complex cases of diseases. Patients receive a full range of services in the units: outpatient clinics, inpatient care, day care facility and rehabilitation center.
GBUZ The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology is a state medical institution and is working to organize events aimed at preventing the use of narcotic and other psychoactive substances. Also, the MSC of Narcology conducts research in specialized areas, coordinates the work of all similar institutions operating in Moscow.
Activities
Patients with the diagnoses of drug addiction, substance abuse, alcoholism, and game addiction are accepted for treatment. Free service is provided to residents of Moscow. Patients from other regions are hospitalized under state programs free of charge. Also, inpatient care is guaranteed to any citizen of the Russian Federation if there is a referral from the Department of Health. The main condition for obtaining qualified care is the patient’s desire, since any addiction has psychological reasons.
The activity of the ISTC of narcology is developing in the scientific, clinical, and outpatient areas, where all efforts are made to treat patients from addictions, to develop new methods of prevention and treatment. The institution’s specialists adhere to the principles of a phased integrated application of treatment and rehabilitation programs, which has a higher percentage of success in comparison with other methods of overcoming specific diseases.
Divisions
GBU The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology consists of three main divisions, each of which has its own characteristics. Clinic resources are designed for simultaneous care of 1700 patients.
The main divisions of the ISTC Narcology:
- The clinical department was founded in 2003 and focuses on the round-the-clock work of the emergency service, better known as the “Helpline”. Leading doctors and psychologists are engaged in providing consultations. The main direction is urgent hospitalization, psychological assistance and support for people with addictions in critical situations, as well as their relatives.
- The outpatient unit provides medical, diagnostic, psychological and other types of assistance to patients with addictions. The ambulatory includes resuscitation, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, laboratory, day care, and prevention departments. Patients are hospitalized in specialized departments, which takes into account the profile of the disease (alcoholism, substance abuse, drug addiction, etc.). HIV-infected patients have their own department. The outpatient unit includes all narcological dispensaries in the city of Moscow.
- The scientific division consists of departments of clinical narcology, medical genetics and experimental immunology. The subjects of study are children's narcology and the problems of its psychotherapy, rehabilitation. The institution develops scientific methods for identifying hidden forms of drug addiction, alcoholism, and also determines the genetic factors for the emergence of addictions in childhood. Based on the results obtained, programs and recommendations for existing specialists are formed.
- Educational activities and enlightenment. The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology of the Department of Health is the educational department of the RAMS of postgraduate education of specialists.
Stages of complex treatment
The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology of the Department of Health has developed and implemented a set of measures for the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction. Clinic specialists are not limited only to therapeutic measures, but also carry out work on the social rehabilitation of the patient.
The program consists of stages:
- Preliminary. It consists in the active formation in the patient of a persistent desire to recover from dependence. The process involves employees of the institution and the immediate environment of the patient (relatives, friends, colleagues, etc.).
- Stopping. The withdrawal of the patient from withdrawal symptoms or withdrawal of withdrawal syndrome. It is carried out by medical methods under the supervision of an experienced doctor.
- Treatment. Stabilization of the patient’s physical condition, relieving depressive syndromes, control of attraction to narcotic substances or alcohol. At this stage, patients often leave the program if there was not enough motivation for treatment. Refusal or participation in treatment programs is voluntary, the clinic has no right to keep the patient forcibly.
- Therapy and correction. About 30% of successful cures occur during this period, when patients solve their intrapersonal problems and conflicts with a psychotherapist and psychologist. In addition to working in psychological groups and individual sessions, drug treatment is carried out.
- Rehabilitation. At the final stage, the patient is taught to recognize internal risk factors, symptoms of disruption and pathological attraction. By learning to hear their own “demons" and control themselves, the patient can return to normal life. More than half the success of therapy falls at this stage. During this period, the patient’s family members are involved in the treatment process, general consultations and work with a psychologist, psychiatrist and narcologist are carried out.
Adaptation
The treatment program is designed for a 30-day patient stay in the hospital, after which they receive compulsory treatment for three months to six months in an outpatient setting. One of the prerequisites for success is social rehabilitation and a return to normal. The ISTC of Narcology actively collaborates with city employment services, helping everyone who wants to find work and re-socialize, acquire new working skills or restore lost ones.
As part of the rehabilitation program, the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology recommends that patients attend self-help groups in communities of anonymous alcoholics or anonymous drug addicts. For each patient, a group is selected in which he will feel himself involved in the process and get the most out of communication.
In the post-treatment period, much attention is paid to the patient's family. For a full effect, family psychotherapy sessions are conducted. The aim of the work is to educate relatives of the methods of psychological protection from an alcoholic or drug addict, to develop options, ways to change the internal environment of the family to overcome the system of intra-family relationships that led to the emergence of addictions. Lectures, seminars for relatives and close patients of the center are held every Monday and Thursday at a convenient time after the end of the working day (17: 00-20: 00).
How to ask for help
Any Muscovite can seek help, for this it is necessary to find a territorial narcological dispensary and call the help desk to clarify the date of admission by a specialist.
The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology has branches in the districts:
- Central District.
- Northwest District.
- In the northern district there is a branch of the dispensary No. 1 and No. 2, a day hospital for drug addicts and a rehabilitation center.
- Southeast District.
- Southern District.
- Southwestern.
Ten branches in different parts of the city make up the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology. Branch 4 is located on Shcherbakovskaya Street, in building No. 57/20. Prevention and treatment of tobacco smoking and non-chemical types of addictions are carried out in a branch on Ostozhenka Street, building 53A.
To get help you need to have a package of documents: passport, MHI policy. Anonymous help, support and advice are provided by calling the helpline. GBUZ ISTC Narcology provides information by phone, which can be found on the official website of the institution.
Hospital Rules
The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology (Lublinskaya St., 37/1) carries out hospitalization in a hospital according to the following rules:
- Scheduled work on the reception of patients and their distribution in the departments is carried out in the emergency room around the clock. Addresses of hospitals: Lublinskaya street, building 37/1, Bolotnikovskaya street, building 16, Warsaw highway, building 170 G, building No. 1.
- Accommodation for inpatient treatment is carried out after a written voluntary consent of the patient, submitted by him to the director of the ISTC, where consent is given to treatment, processing of personal data, etc.
- Upon admission to inpatient treatment, the patient provides a passport indicating the place of residence. For Muscovites, hospitalization is free. For residents of other cities, a direction from the Moscow Health Department is required. For residents of other regions, hospitalization on a commercial basis is possible.
- Children and adolescents under 16 years of age are placed in the inpatient unit at the request of parents or guardians.
- For hospitalization, behavioral and mental personality disorders associated with drug abuse are indications. Also, the reason for treatment in the hospital is a pathological desire for gambling.
- Urgent hospitalization is carried out by the emergency service, accommodation is carried out at the addresses - Lublinskaya street, building 37/1 or Warsaw highway, building 170 G, building No. 1.
- Patients without a specific place of residence are hospitalized with a passport / temporary certificate / referral from the Moscow Department of Health.
- Independently applying citizens are hospitalized in coordination with the administration of the ISTC for Narcology, provided that there are no a number of diseases (viral hepatitis, HIV, AIDS, syphilis).
- Patients with viral diseases can also be hospitalized in a special department. To do this, it is necessary to attach a fluorographic examination to a standard package of documents, a referral from the appropriate supervisory authority (MGOTS AIDS).
Special approach
1 The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology deals not only with adult problems, but also with children who are involved in alcohol or drug use. Two dispensary departments have been created for them, where consultative, outpatient, diagnostic, medical and rehabilitation assistance is provided.
You can apply for treatment and consultations at Ostozhenka Street, building 53A. Medical and social rehabilitation measures are carried out in the department at Leninsky Prospekt, building 89A. A comprehensive program has been developed for patients, including group and individual psychotherapy, occupational therapy, drug treatment, art therapy, etc. Family therapy sessions are being conducted . When staying in a hospital, patients are under the supervision of doctors and educators.
Not only standard programs operate in the assets of the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology. Branch No. 8 offers patients extended outpatient rehabilitation programs:
- “Catechism” - based on the Orthodox faith.
- “First Step” is a starting program for those who will undergo rehabilitation using the “12 steps” methodology.
- "Insight" - will be interesting and useful to people with a scientific approach to understanding the world and its structure.
- “Return” is the final program for people who have undergone treatment at the rehabilitation center of the ISTC for Narcology.
- Ostrov completes the 12 Steps program.
- “Family” - the closest relatives of addicted patients are involved in the program.
The branch has branches:
- Dispensary No. 1 is located on Barclay Street 5, building 6.
- Dispensary number 2 is located on the highway Borovskoe, building 46.
- A narcological office providing services to the population of the TAO is located in the village of Desenovskoye on Novovatutinsky Prospekt, in building 12A.
- A day hospital and a rehabilitation department are located on Kastanaevskaya street in house number 26.
Rehabilitation center
Comprehensive treatment and an individual approach to each patient are the priorities on which the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology bases its work. The rehabilitation center helps patients who decide to get rid of addiction, conduct the procedure in full accordance with the methods. Stay and treatment in the center is voluntary, for the residents of Moscow the entire course is free.
Patients who have undergone a full range of treatment measures from the following hospitals at the ISTC Narcology are admitted to undergo a rehabilitation course:
- Branch No. 1 (Bolotnikovskaya St., Building 8).
- Head office on the street Lublin, building 37/1.
- Branch number 2 (Warsaw highway, building 170G).
- Day hospitals of any branch of the ISTC Narcology.
Patients arrive for rehabilitation at the transport center. The program and its duration are determined individually for each person. The range of measures includes drug treatment, psychological and social adaptation.
At the end of the course, each person receives personal recommendations, the list of which includes a plan for further work with intrapersonal problems, recommendations for attending meetings and self-help groups. Patients are focused on improving family relationships, socialization, work, and much more. Address - Stupinsky district, the village of Old Sitnya, Bolnichnaya street, building number 1.
Reviews
The Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology received positive reviews from patients who found the strength to go through the entire course of treatment and the rehabilitation program. Many doctors from different branches are grateful to patients and their relatives for their understanding, professionalism and patient attitude.
Most of those who underwent treatment say that this was one of the most difficult periods of their life, they often wanted to quit treatment and return to their old habits, but the persistence of all the clinic staff saved us more than once from a rash step. Patients claim that they are now ready to overcome all difficulties with character traits, rather than avoiding them with drugs or alcohol.
Not everyone was satisfied with the treatment provided by the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology. Reviews with negative ratings talk about the hard medication prescribed for patients, after which complications quite often happen. Also, some participants in the rehabilitation program indicate that living in the center is uncomfortable. The premises have not been repaired for a long time, there are cases of theft and disrespectful attitude on the part of staff.