India · what exists
Where you would actually go.
Not a hotline in another country and not a clinic you pay for. These are the real kinds of place, run or funded by the Government of India, with the real number of each.
01 · Before you call
What to ask
None of these is a rude question, and asking one does not commit you to anything. This is what the call is for — the answers are how you find out whether the place in front of you is the right one.
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“Is this an ODIC — can I walk in and leave the same day?”
It is usually the right kind of place to start with, and it does not mean staying anywhere.
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“Is this centre run or recognised by the Government?”
Section 64A only covers treatment at a hospital or centre the Government runs or recognises. A private arrangement is not the same thing.
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“What will this cost me?”
The helpline is free and these centres are run or funded by the Government. Ask anyway, and ask early.
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“Do you keep my number?”
This site cannot tell you — it is not published anywhere it could check. They are used to being asked.
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“Who else gets told, and does my age change that?”
It varies by your age, your state and the service. Ask the service in front of you rather than trusting a website about it.
02 · What exists
The five kinds of place
Current counts, from a written reply in Parliament on 23 July 2026. They were 599 places in February 2024 and they are 765 now; the chart below shows where the difference went. Both figures are on the sources page with their citations.
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76
ODIC
Outreach and Drop‑In Centre
Walk in and leave the same day. Screening, an assessment, someone to talk to, a referral onward if you want one. If one of these is where to start, it is this one.
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344
IRCA
Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts
The largest group by far. In‑patient: you stay there. Counselling, medical de‑addiction, and support afterwards.
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145
DDAC
District De‑Addiction Centre
One per district where they exist, doing what the other three do under one roof.
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155
ATF
Addiction Treatment Facility
Inside ordinary government hospitals. If walking into a building that is only for this is too much, this one looks like any other department.
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45
CPLI
Community Peer‑Led Intervention
Run for people under 18, by people closer to your own age. Prevention and life skills rather than treatment.
And how many of them there are now
The same five kinds of place, counted twice: once in February 2024 and once in a written reply in Parliament in July 2026. Both counts are on the sources page.
599 places in February 2024. 765 in July 2026.
The two that moved are the two that matter most if you do not want to be seen going somewhere: units inside ordinary hospitals, which look like any other department, and district centres. Those nearly doubled and nearly tripled.
All of these have been geo‑tagged by the Ministry. That is why the helpline can tell you the nearest one over the phone.
Real photograph Athikkadai Government Hospital, Tamil Nadu. An Addiction Treatment Facility is a unit inside an ordinary government hospital like this one. This photograph is of the building, not of a unit inside it.
Ashiqproffesit · CC BY-SA 4.0 · original
Real photograph A government primary health centre in the Nilgiris. This is the register of building the rest of this page is talking about — ordinary, low, and open to anybody who walks up to it.
Timothy A. Gonsalves · CC BY-SA 4.0 · original
03 · Near you
Finding the one nearest you
This site does not print addresses, and that is a decision rather than an omission. The Ministry’s own list is a scanned document with no readable text in it, so nothing here could be copied out of it and checked. A wrong address is not a typo — it is somebody travelling to a building that is not there. Here is what works instead.
What it costs
The helpline is free. The centres above are run or funded by the Government, which is why they are on this page and a private clinic is not. Ask about cost on the call — it is a normal question, and better asked early.
- Search the exact words "Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan" with your district name. It finds the real programme, and it does not require you to contact anybody about yourself.
- Look for an ODIC first. It is the one you can walk into and leave the same day, and almost always the right place to start.
- Then call, and ask for the nearest recognised centre to your area.
