We teach a spiritually augmented healthy lifestyle – Raja Yogi Lifestyle – being taught free of cost by Brahma Kumaris worldwide, in de-addiction, relapse prevention and promotion of an addiction free lifestyle that is user friendly, flexible, compatible, easily adhered to and result oriented among different ages, races and ethnicity. Studies show that Raja Yogi Lifestyle as taught by Brahma Kumaris is effective in management, rehabilitation and relapse prevention of substance abuse and drug addicts. The meditative lifestyle as taught by Brahma Kumaris is effective in coping with withdrawal or craving. The unique, user-friendly, healthy, spiritually augmented lifestyle – Raja Yogi Lifestyle – help people to stay away from drugs for longer duration and thus be more effective in relapse prevention. The Raja Yogi Lifestyle seems to be helping people in two distinct orientations. The first, it tries to promote the acquisition of social skills directly related with situations that may contribute to the initiation of the subjects drug use. In this case, the objective is to help the subject to refuse the offer of a drug in a specific social context. The other orientation, stresses the development of positive social skills, which may have a general positive impact upon personal development, thus preventing the contact of the subject with substances of abuse.
