2025, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part A

author(s)
Amanpreet Kaur, Charanjit Kaur, Gurjot Kaur and Harjot Kaur

abstract
Background: Substance Abuse is a cane of warms in the modern world and it has sadly become very prevalent in India too. Drugs are substances that produce momentary feelings of elation when taken and ultimately lead to addiction. Deteriorating mental health and peer pressure lead vulnerable teenagers to indulge in substance abuse and become addicts. Drugs destroy lives, since substance addicts can see nothing beyond their need to take drugs. There is need to make adolescents aware about the causative factors and harmful effects of these substances to reduce the prevalence of substance abuse in country.