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On Saturday 17/6/2023 the Self-Help Promotion Programme participated with the introduction of its Deputy Scientific Officer, Dr. Sotiris Lainas at the 1st Panhellenic Symposium of the Hellenic Society of Emergency Medicine.

The topic of the presentation was entitled: The importance of cooperation between rehabilitation facilities and emergency departments. The example of the collaboration between the NICU of the General Hospital and the Self-Help Promotion Program.

The Self-Help Promotion Program of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki operates with the funding of the Ministry of Health and the cooperation of the O.KA.NA. and supports people with drug, alcohol and/or gambling addiction problems.

Self-Help Promotion Program

The Self-Help Promotion Program bases its mode of operation on contemporary critical approaches to the science of Psychology and other social sciences, as well as the field of addictions. Based on these approaches, the program emphasises the social, political and cultural dimensions of the causes of the problem of addiction and other psychosocial problems. At the same time, people and their needs are placed at the centre of the interventions implemented, with their emancipation and the recovery of their dignity as the main priorities. The central pillars of the interventions carried out by the program are the concept of self-help/mutual aid and the protagonist role of those directly concerned.