A pilot treatment program for substance abuse that incorporated a comprehensive array of yoga, meditation, spiritual and mind-body techniques. Subjects showed improvements on a number of psychological self-report questionnaires including the Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale and the Quality of Recovery Index.

• Language: English
• Target / Subjects: Males aged 18 and older, derived from a sample of volunteer substance abusers who had responded to advertising in newspapers in the state of Punjab, India, a state with a high Sikh population.
• Author: Sat Bir S. Khalsa, Gurucharan S. Khalsa, Hargopal K. Khalsa, Mukta K. Khalsa
• Date Published / Reference: Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, Vol. 7(1) 2008; doi : 10.1080/15332640802081968
• Covered Diseases: Substance Abuse