Dr Satyen Sharma

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We all do, "we live, and we learn", to reuse the famous adage. But one of these things which I'm very worried about, as somebody who's been deeply interested in parenting as an exercise, is something, because of addiction, I started looking at. Because it would be so common for me – a family from Punjab would bring in a young, strapping, healthy boy, 20/22 years of age, who's been using heroin for some time. And they would tell me, Doctor, “this boy, we want you to remove his heroin habit. And we have given him no work at all.” Now he's free to work out on his addiction, which is so counterintuitive. The first thing I would say is that if he doesn't have any responsibilities, per se, or anything to look forward to, what motivation does he have to go off drugs?

Dr. Satyen Sharma is a second generation psychiatrist, who was trained at the Prestigious Armed Forces Medical College , Pune in India.

- He has been actively working as a consulting psychiatrist in Punjab and in and around Delhi for 16 years.

- Satyen has held leadership positions as Secretary and then president of the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry

- His areas of interest are Addiction psychiatry and general adult psychiatry.