Brightside drug abuse rehabilitation and treatment centre; abbreviated "Brightside D.A.R.T centre" is a mental health facility, for the treatment and rehabilitation of persons suffering from substance use disorders , substance induced psychotic states, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety , schizophrenia, and maladaptive conditions like internet addiction, gambling , sexual deviations, cults and religious fanaticism.
I started doing drugs (marijuana, khat, alcohol and cigarettes) in form 3, in a Nairobi city school, when I was 16 years old.
I can attribute the onset of my drug abuse to adolescence issues. I felt my father favored my brother, simply because he is a boy - child (in keeping with the African tradition, where the boy child is favored). All my attempts to catch my father’s attention did not work. I therefore decided to rebel by disappearing from home for ...
When I reached 48 years old, I realized that it was two years before I reached 50 (half a century). For half a century, I had achieved nothing worth taking about. No job, no wife, no kids and living on my mother like a teenager.
After A-level examination in Kenya, I proceeded to USA for further studies. While I was in US, I never registered for any course. For 7 ½ years I was just drinking. I came back to Kenya in 1990 and continued drinking. By 1997, I...
PETER NJAGI KUMANTHA - PROGRAM DIRECTOR
MB, CHB, MED (PSYC) – U.O.N, HHHF (SUD) - JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (US)
NJAGI KUMANTHA is consultant psychiatrist and an expert on treatment and rehabilitation of persons with substance use disorders....
The aim of the treatment and rehabilitation is for the patient to stop taking drugs, discard the associated maladaptive behaviors, acquire the skills necessary to maintain sobriety, and be able to function satisfactorily in the community after discharge.
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DR. P. N. NJAGI KUMANTHA
M.B, Ch.B, M.MED(psych) U.O.N, HHHF JOHNS HOPKINS, US.
PSYCHIATRIST & SPECIALIST ON THE TREATMENT OF ADDICTIVE DISORDERS
Email: drnjagi@brightsiderehabilitation.org
