It is a statistical fact that very few addicts or alcoholics manage to give up drugs or alcohol without some kind of support system. Drugs or drink have been so important in their lives that when they stop using them there is a great gap in their way of life. Something has to take its [...]

Case No.l: Ravi Dutt fell down while playing. His whole body weight rested on the thumb of his hand which twisted. He cried with pain. X-ray in the hospital showed no fracture only torn muscle. Still the hand was plastered and the patient discharged after giving some pain killers. As soon as the effect of [...]

Mathura Dass was a well-read young man, well-placed in society and a successful business man. But he had an abnoxious temperament with a violent rage. Once he slapped an Income Tax officer in his office in a fit of anger. At another occasion he beat his 2-year old child who was crying due to some [...]

The greatest cost of all is suicide—an irreversible act that reflects intolerable suffering and loss of hope. Luke attempted suicide after an acne medication (Accutane) failed to improve his skin. “It was my last hope,” he said. “I got so upset that it didn’t work that I had a nervous breakdown. I was constantly grieving [...]