Application for Drug Information and Counseling of Addicts (ADICA)

Project Title

Application for Drug Information and Counseling of Addicts (ADICA)

Project Area of Specialization Computer ScienceProject Summary

Drugs are poison that affects our nervous system via neurotransmitters. By using drugs people feel so stress free & relax. They think drugs are the solution but later they become a major problem that they can’t skip even when they want too that’s why we are designing this application that will help those people who want to get rid of this curse. In this application we will focus on these:

1: Drugs Information: that provide all the basic information’s about drugs and addicted.

2: Types of Drugs: that provides details, advantages and drawbacks.

3. Counseling: It is one of the important and main features of our application that will guide every stage of addiction. That will easily help drug addicted people and they will have a hope to live their beautiful lives again which they left behind [1].

The main feature is using this application counselor will guide the addicts through live chat.For the awareness and information about drugs this application will offer two languages Urdu and English. ADICA is an android based application that can easily implement in all hospitals and rehab centers. We can work on android studio by using JAVA, XML, and SQLite.

Project Objectives

Drug abuse among adolescents is a common problem and many of them still do not have medical assistance during public offenses.Young drug addicts are scares to be seen as a drug addict in society, some of whom are scared to discuss adulthood as much as possible, that it is not an improvement after rehabilitation and lack of personal access to the internet where they can get help from professionals as psychologists as well. They need special treatment and guidance for this purpose we are going to provide platform from where they can seek guidance, treatment and motivation also.

Project Implementation Method

The main objective of this is to provide platform for Drug Addict People in more well planned and reliable way without more effort in collect information about DRUGS. There are some techniques which we provide in this application are follows:

Primary Techniques

Primary data were collected by means of systematically prepared for to get information about drugs and add some counseling techniques for drug addict people.

Secondary Techniques

• Document Analysis

This technique gives us the information on how the existing system works.

These for documents related to the existing system of the organization will be evaluated.

System Analysis and Design Techniques

In this project, we will use Object Oriented System development methodology (OOSD) for design.

This technique has several phases some of them are:

• Object Oriented Analysis (OOA)

We will use this phase to model the function of system and identifying the relation between them.

• Object Oriented Design (OOD)

In this phase, we will use the software to clarify the model of our project.

          Tools

Software:

Android Studio

JAVA

XML

Android SDK

Window

SQ Lite

Hardware Requirements for Software Development

Computer System with minimum 4GB RAM, Intel core, 1.7 GHz Processor,

64bit operating system.

Smartphone that run Android System

References

1. Chris Elkins (6april2018).drughub.retrieved from drug hub.
2. Australian Government (16july2019) retrieved from health government of Australia.

Benefits of the Project

1.  It is a platform that provide the knowledge about drugs, how to decrease the uses of drugs.
2. It can give all the advantages and drawbacks of different types of drugs.
3. User can easily access the psychologists and psychiatrist.
4. By using this application user can easily know about how to counseling the drug patients.
5. In counseling we can describe three main stages of drug addicts. So, user can access these stages and know how to treat these types of patients.
6. This online platform improves flexibility of health care services.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

People from all their journey of life can face different problems with the uses of drugs. Basically, addiction is a disease that destroys our brain. Day by day, drug addiction can increase all over the world. For the awareness of addiction and decrease the use of drugs we can develop an application “Application for Drug Information and Counseling or Addicts”.

This application consists of two parts:

• Awareness and Information

This will includes information about the following.

1. Drugs awareness
2. Types of Drugs
3. Meet Doctors
4. Counseling
5. Therapies

1. Drug awareness:

 It carries all the information about awareness of drugs.

1. Types of Drugs:

In this phase, we will provide all the details about drugs types, their advantages and drawbacks also.

• AMPHETAMINES/ICE
• HEROIN
• COCAINE
• STEROIDS
• HALLUCINOGENS
• ALCOHOL

1. Meet Doctors: This is the second type of our application that will provide all the necessary details about doctors.

• Psychologists
• Psychiatrist

1. Counseling:  It is one of the important and main features of our application that will guide every stage of addiction. We will use different stages of counseling. Every stage has different solutions and precautions.

Here we will describe three main stages:

• Initial stage
• Middle Stage
• Final stage

1. Therapies: It is the major stage that works for drug addicts via counseling. We will use different types of therapies that will easily help drug addicted people and they will have a hope to live their beautiful lives again which they left behind.

1: Behavioral Therapy

• Cognitive behavioral therapy

2: Motivational Therapy

3: Family counseling and therapies 

• Counseling

In this feature the doctor and addicts will have to register themselves. Doctor will console the addict with the help of live chat.
All the doctors will have authority to leave the chat as well as addicts can request to change their doctor in case of un-satisfaction on both sides.
while addicts can manage their profile and the doctor will have to registers themselves with the proves of their degrees and experiences.

Final Deliverable of the Project Software SystemCore Industry ITOther Industries Health Core Technology Internet of Things (IoT)Other Technologies Artificial Intelligence(AI)Sustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for PeopleRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	80000
Android Mobile	Equipment	1	70000	70000
Stationary, Printing & Overhead	Miscellaneous	1	10000	10000