Introduction Due to
change in world’s social and economic pattern with so much of stressors and so less time for each other and even for oneself to get relaxed, there is a hug scope for immature population to go for unnatural and short-lived pleasures which although might pose severe threat to one’s own health and well being and even to life. Hence late teenagers and people in early twenties are those who are most prone to it as they both have reason and accessibility for same.Definitions Drug abuse refers to self or peer medication of a drug in any amount or in any manner that cannot be medically or socially justified for its use. Drug addiction means compulsive use of a drug, procuring it to take precedence over other activities. Drug habituation means less intense craving of drug.
Problem statement According to NIDA (national institute on drug abuse) Monitoring Future survey that is studying trends since many years shows that there has been significantly decreased consumption of all types of drugs except inhalants. Although there has been decreasing trends but they are not at all satisfying as there are still a large number of teenagers specially 8th graders who tend to get involved into this. The problem with these types of drug is both direct and indirect. The direct effect of these drugs is for e.g. addiction, insomnia, hyper somnolence, increased reaction time and so on and so forth. But indirect ones are equally dangerous for e.g. easy prey to AIDS, Hepatitis B & C and other infectious diseases.
Cause of problem, why abuse? The root cause of problem are manifold but main causes are teenagers with a history of drug abuse in family, single parent family, economically or socially deprived children and surprisingly teenagers of Hispanic origin.
