New Delhi: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J.P. Nadda on Monday, October 26, launched the Capacity Building Training Programme for Medical and Allied Healthcare Professionals engaged in drug de-addiction services at Kartavya Bhawan-1, New Delhi, in hybrid mode, ANI reported. The programme aims to strengthen the capacity of healthcare professionals involved in the prevention, identification, assessment, treatment and management of substance use disorders across the country.

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Nadda reiterated the government's commitment to achieving a Nasha Mukt Bharat by 2029 and emphasised that addressing substance use disorders requires a coordinated, whole-of-government approach, with the Health, Social Justice and Empowerment, and Home ministries working together, ANI reported.

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10,000Service providers to be trained by March 2029
6Central institutions delivering the programme
300Participants per week in the combined online live sessions

The programme follows the Vision Document on Narcotic Control: 2026-2029, unveiled in June 2026 by Home Minister Amit Shah. Under it, the Health Ministry will train 2,000 service providers during the current financial year, followed by 3,000 in 2027-28 and 5,000 in 2028-29, ANI reported. The PIB summary of the launch noted that more than 800 nominations have already been received.

Source: PIB summary via CrackTarget

Training will be delivered through six institutions under the Drug De-addiction Programme (DDAP): the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), AIIMS New Delhi, which will coordinate overall implementation; NIMHANS, Bengaluru; PGIMER, Chandigarh; the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi; Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi; and AIIMS Bhubaneswar. The blended programme combines 12 weeks of online live sessions for doctors and medical officers, self-paced online courses for nurses, Community Health Officers and ANMs, and five-day in-person programmes on a common curriculum covering alcohol, cannabis, opioids, sleeping tablets and inhalants, including care for women and adolescents.

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At the event, Nadda also released the second edition of 'Substance Use Disorder: Manual for Physicians (Management of Addictive Disorders)', first published in 2005 and extensively revised to reflect two decades of advances in addiction science and treatment, ANI reported.

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