Samaher Saif Al Yazal
The Chairman of the Board of Directors association of addiction recovery, Sheikh Adel bin Rashid Boussa’a, affirmed that the establishment of a women’s recovery center is a great qualitative shift in the issue of drug addicts treatment, as it represents the audacity and courage to confront the reality in society, and to bear responsibility through cases that come to review the association, or that review the Al -Moayad Center for Psychiatry or during other clinics, for a number of sisters who suffer from addiction The drug, and is considered the first center for addiction treatment for the female component, to embrace a certain number of sisters who have the desire and will to recover from this scourge for treatment in this center, which represents hope for them to get out of this serious disease to build their lives again and have a role as sisters of products in Bahraini and Gulf society.
He indicated that among the services that will be provided at the Women’s Center to recover as it is dedicated to women only, to do and organize meetings with the families of the addicts through a family counselor that will be appointed to the center, in order to perform the family counseling, which helps directly first in restoring the relationship between the addicts and their families; Because of the gap that took place after addiction, the role of the family counselor in the development of appropriate mechanisms and methods in how the family deals with the addicts, and a awareness of other families in how to discover the addict inside the house through some indicators through the training workshops provided, whether in platforms or social media, so that all women’s groups include mothers, wives, sisters and girls in the methods of prevention and treatment.
On the importance of establishing the women’s center for addicts, Boukhiba said: “The importance of establishing a women’s center to recover because of a group of addicts has a relationship with recovery in the Arab Gulf states through the fellowship community for addicts, and they are looking for a place that contains them to rehabilitate them in the recovery program, which prepares for the women’s center to be the important incubator and the president in continuing to recover, as he receives recovery on a daily basis, and gives them the opportunity To express their problems, which constitutes this center as a treatment and preventive society for these recovery to avoid the path of relapse and enhance their capabilities, and also provides them with subsequent care after recovering until they exercise their lives naturally, and this is the most important role for the women’s center ». Regarding the cooperation between the men’s recovery center and the women’s center, Boukhbaa explained that the establishment of a women’s recovery center came on a balance of accumulated experiences in the work of the association of recovery from addiction for 13 years, which represents a great experience of the women’s center, as it will start from what the men’s center has ended in recovery, and this establishes the center to continue to develop this qualitative relationship with all parties and relevant authorities, to treat addicts because there is no special center for women to treat Addiction from drugs, and this is, thanks to God, we have to have a specialized center for women to treat addicts, and provides a qualitative service in the recovery and treatment program, with the presence of cadres of specialization and experience in the field of addiction treatment to provide qualitative experience in an independent and special place for women.
On cooperation with the Ministry of Interior regarding alternative penalties and open prisons, he explained that it is expected that the employees of alternative penalties and open prisons will benefit from women convicted in addiction cases; This paves the way for the work of a special program for these at the Women’s Center to recover to spend their judicial ruling according to the system used in the Ministry, which represents a qualitative addition to the work of the drug recovery association in promoting service and improving it and developing the positive relationship with the Ministry of Interior.
