On 12th February 2020, as part of m-health project, SUHAM Trust has organized workshop and conducted a campaign at Keerathurai slum to create awareness about de-addiction programmes, treatment and rehabilitations for the alcoholic anonymous persists at community level. SUHAM’s baseline survey about the addicts revealed that alcohol addiction is prevailing more in the slum areas. After the campaign, there was an interaction session with the women, to know how they are coping up with their husband’s alcohol addiction, and all of them shared how their husband’s alcohol addiction is having effects on the family’s socio-economic conditions. Three men had taken treatment at the de-addiction centres during the last camp, and they had moved out of alcohol addiction completely and they have been monitored by the SUHAM health team periodically.
