Effect of yoga therapy in rehabilitation of drug addicts

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  • Mathew Anand
  • Dayananda Sagar
چکیده

Drug addiction or substance abuse has been a social menace worldwide. Owing to various reasons the occurrence of drug addiction related problems cannot be done away completely by any country. But, as a responsible society every community, nations or administration cannot turn its face on this social evil. A major observation of the programs of rehabilitation centers revealed complete negligence to therapeutic effect of exercise for the purpose of rehabilitation. The purpose of this pilot study is to find out the effect of yoga therapy in rehabilitation of drug addicts. 20 male subjects were randomly assigned into experimental or control group and treated with yoga therapy program or conventional de-addiction program for six weeks. Self Confidence Inventory and Optimistic Pessimistic Attitude Scale were used as Outcome measures. Statistically significant results were observed in yoga therapy program group than control group. This study concludes that yoga therapy is effective in the rehabilitation of drug addicts. ABSTRACT

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تاریخ انتشار 2013