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Mansa Clinic in Aundh, Pune provides outpatient de-addiction assessment and treatment for alcohol, prescription drugs, nicotine, and behavioural addictions. The programme combines medically supervised detox planning, cognitive behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing, and structured relapse prevention - with family support sessions integrated from the start.
The 2019 National Survey on Substance Use (Ministry of Social Justice, Government of India) found that Maharashtra has over 3.6 million individuals dependent on alcohol alone. In urban Pune - a city with a large corporate, student, and migrant professional population - addiction cuts across income, education, and social background. It does not discriminate.
What keeps most people from seeking help is not the absence of treatment. It is shame. The belief that needing help means having failed. That is not a belief that Mansa Clinic shares or reinforces. Addiction is a condition with identifiable biological mechanisms, environmental triggers, and effective treatments. Walking through our door is not an admission of weakness. It is the most important step in a medical recovery process.
Alcohol dependency is the most common addiction presentation at Mansa Clinic. Our assessment goes beyond 'how much are you drinking' to examine why - the underlying anxiety, depression, trauma, or social pressures driving alcohol use. Our treatment protocol includes psychiatric management of co-occurring conditions, medical planning for safe detoxification, and structured behavioural therapy for long-term sobriety.
Dependence on benzodiazepines (sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications) and opioids prescribed for pain is a growing and largely invisible problem in urban India. Many patients do not recognise themselves as having an addiction because their dependency began with a legitimate prescription. Dr. Baste's psychiatric training allows him to manage this complex intersection of mental illness, pain, and dependency without leaving the underlying condition untreated.
Cessation support for smoking and cannabis use is available at Mansa Clinic, including nicotine replacement planning, Varenicline management where appropriate, and motivational interviewing to build genuine readiness for quitting - rather than a short-lived attempt driven by external pressure.
Compulsive gambling, gaming disorder, pornography addiction, and compulsive social media use are increasingly recognised clinical conditions - not weaknesses of character. The brain mechanisms underlying behavioural addictions share key features with substance addiction. Our team assesses and treats these using CBT and structured behavioural intervention programmes.
Dr. Baste's MD training in psychological medicine provides the foundation for accurate diagnosis of addiction as a psychiatric condition, identification of co-occurring disorders, and medically safe detoxification planning. His understanding of the brain mechanisms underpinning addiction allows him to address the whole person - not just the substance use.
