In case of suspicion of depression or diagnosed depression, please contact immediately with a medicine doctor, who will undertake appropriate operations in order to treat the illness. If you suspect that you or someone from your family or friends suffer from depression, you can seek advice by e-mail or telephone, for example at www.leczdepresje.pl
Please note that not every bad day and malaise are symptoms of depression!
Addictions
The first step to take the problem of alcohol treatment, drug, nicotine or other, should be a visit to the GP, which indicates a further way to proceed, advise specialist clinics, therapists, etc.
Support groups are considered by specialists as a good way of solving addiction problems. In Poland, there are various support groups; for drug, alcohol, nicotine addicts.
Polish alcoholics anonymous website
Polish drug addicts anonymous website
The website for people willing to quit smoking
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NOTE! In Poland, alcohol abusing is regarded as an addict and pathological behavior. If you are stopped by the police and your are intoxicated, you may be taken to a drunk-tank where you would stay until you are sober. The cost of stay there is defrayed by you. In Poland, it is forbidden to drink alcohol drinks in streets, in parks, in means of public transport and other public places, apart from places assigned (such as street ‘restaurant gardens’). In Poland, it is illegal to own, use and distribute drugs. The punishment may even include deportation from Poland or imprisonment. Cigarettes and tobacco smoking is not allowed in every place. Smoking is forbidden in hospitals, schools, offices, bus stops, in most of means of transport and in some restaurants and bars. |
