Sunny
Trust International is one
of the most effective NGO presently engaged against treatment
and rehabilitation of drug addicts .Drug addiction is
a social cancer afflicting primarily our impressionable
youth. These unfortunate souls must be treated and reintegrated
in to society’s mainstream as self-respecting, responsible
and productive citizens.
Sunny Trust International is carrying out this noble mission and
stands out as a unique experiment based purely on Homeopathic Medication
and comprehensive system of self-discipline, spiritual training
and psycho-social rehabilitation.
Based on several years of experience and insight in effectively
dealing with a wide variety of drug-related patients, Dr. Sunny
decided to devote himself exclusively to the treatment and rehabilitation
of drug addicts through initially setting up of a 5-bed in-house
pilot facility at Faisalabad in March 1992. The success of this
experiment soon led to its expansion into a 30-bed facility for
treatment and rehabilitation of drug addiction cases. The Faisalabad
Centre is presently undergoing reorganization.
Meanwhile, a 35-bed Islamabad Centre was established in 1995. It
later expanded to 50-bed facility and remains operative to full
capacity. Located in Islamabad suburb at Bara Kahu, along the main
Murree Road, the Center provides an open, clean and healthy environment
for drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation.
Between the two Centers since their inception, and Dr. Sunny’s
earlier out-patient treatment of drug-related cases, Sunny Trust
Pakistan combines experience of curing nearly 4000 drug addicts
covering practically the entire social spectrum and successive generations
of drug users from all over Pakistan. Besides, Sunny Trust has occasionally
received foreign patients and those of Pakistani-origin from different
countries. Recent arrivals were from Britain, Russia and Kazakhstan.
A majority of the Sunny Trust patients constitute chronic cases,
deemed incurable due to their prolonged history of drug abuse, repeated
treatment and relapses. They are usually brought to Sunny Trust
as a last resort. Sunny Trust readily admits such ‘rejects’
and ‘incurable’ cases as a professional and social-cum-moral
obligation, howsoever critical their condition be. In fact, such
are Sunny Trust’s most valued patients.
Nearly half the total patients admitted have been provided either
free or subsidized in-house treatment for duration ranging from
90 days minimum to more than a year. Under the Sunny Trust policy,
no patient is refused admission on grounds of non-affordability,
subject to availability of bed. Nor do families, which could bear
the cost of treatment, deny any patient continued treatment on grounds
of default. It is not uncommon for indifferent families to simply
dump an addict member with Sunny Trust and then seldom reappear.
However, such patients are not made to suffer because of improprieties
of their families, which are reminded of their obligation.