{"id":14510,"date":"2015-10-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/10\/19\/yoga-a-boon-for-drug-addicts-indian-government-study\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:00:00","slug":"yoga-a-boon-for-drug-addicts-indian-government-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/10\/19\/yoga-a-boon-for-drug-addicts-indian-government-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga a Boon for Drug Addicts: Indian Government Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypioneer.com\/nation\/yoga-a-boon-for-drug-addicts-aiims-study.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 17, 2015 (Daily Pioneer): Yoga can help improve the quality of life of drug users and also reduce the frequency of their drug use, says a recent study conducted by the Delhi-based AIIMS on behalf of the government&#8217;s Ayush Ministry. The study used Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) and meditation as a treatment along with the regular treatment among a group of drug addicts including heroin users. SKY consists of a specific sequence of varying breathing rates separated by brief periods of normal breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-four heroin users undergoing treatment at a community-based clinic of National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) in east Delhi participated in the study, which concluded at AIIMS here. The study &#8212; which was a randomized one with control groups &#8212; showed that yoga intervention produced a significant change in the physical, social relationship and environmental domains of quality of life, said a statement from the Ministry. It also reduced the frequency of drug use as compared to the control group that was on treatment as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 17, 2015 (Daily Pioneer): Yoga can help improve the quality of life of drug users,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}