4 Best Drug addiction Doctors in Pune

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Siddharth Jhaveri

22 years of experience
Location: India, Pune
Clinic:
4.7
ZorbaCare
Miss. Swapnil Mahajan is a psychologist at ZorbaCare with an MSc in Applied Psychology from NMIMS, Mumbai (GPA 3.51). She supports rehabilitation and mental health care within the clinic’s Mumbai and Pune programs. Her profile emphasizes psychological assessments and designing tailored treatment plans to support recovery.
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Sayantani Mukherjee

16 years of experience
Location: India, Pune
Clinic:
4.7
ZorbaCare
Dr Sayantani Mukherjee is a Consultant Psychiatrist at ZorbaCare who specialises in integrated de-addiction and dual-diagnosis care. She leads medication management and psychiatric support across both residential and outpatient programmes.
- Manages dual diagnosis cases where addiction and mental health conditions coexist
- Provides age-specific care across child, adolescent, and geriatric psychiatry
- Life Fellow of the Indian Psychiatric Society and Indian Association of Private Psychiatry
- Trained at Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital in Mumbai
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Nora Volkow

Location: India, Pune
Clinic:
4.7
ZorbaCare
Professor Nora Volkow is a leading figure in the neurobiology of addiction and currently serves as the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
- Specialises in how drug use affects brain function and human behaviour
- Uses brain imaging to track changes in the dopamine system and frontal cortex
- Member of the National Academy of Medicine
- Published over 780 peer-reviewed papers on addiction and brain imaging
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Sandeep Kharkar

Location: India, Pune
Clinic:
4.7
ZorbaCare
Sandeep Kharkar serves as a 24/7 in-house Recovery Coach at ZorbaCare, offering constant peer support for those navigating drug addiction. He uses his own ten years of continuous sobriety to help clients identify and change harmful behavioral patterns.
- Specialises in the 12-step recovery programme to provide a structured path to sobriety
- Acts as an experiential peer counsellor with three decades of lived experience
- Provides 24/7 monitoring to intervene immediately when detrimental patterns emerge
- Uses evidence-based strategies to support stable transitions through detox and early recovery
- Focuses on relapse prevention to help clients maintain long-term lifestyle changes
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Bookimed Insights: Top Drug addiction Specialists in Pune, India for Australians (2026)

Bookimed helps Australian patients find top Drug addiction specialists in Pune, India, collaborating with 4 leading doctors. The specialists in this ranking are selected based on their international credentials, clinical expertise, English proficiency, number of performed cases, and patient outcomes. The 2026 ranking is formed using verified data from actual patient cases — including reviews from Australian travellers — and current programmes from our partner clinics.

Rank	Doctor	experience	Good Fit For	What Sets Them Apart	Clinic & Location	Consultation
#1	Sayantani Mukherjee	16 years of experience	Dual diagnosis & adolescent addiction	Expertise in managing co-occurring mental health disorders alongside addiction. A Life Fellow of the Indian Psychiatric Society with extensive published research in evidence-based psychiatry.	ZorbaCare India	Price on request
#2	Nora Volkow		Neurobiology of addiction	Director of NIDA and a pioneer in using brain imaging to understand addiction. Her research focuses on how drugs alter brain circuits related to reward and self-control.	ZorbaCare India	Price on request
#3	Sandeep Kharkar		12-step programme and peer-led recovery coaching	Provides 24/7 in-house support as a peer counsellor with ten years of continuous sobriety. He specialises in the 12-step programme and active relapse prevention within a residential rehab setting.	ZorbaCare India	Price on request