The dual crisis: Substance abuse and adolescent a systematic review

Abstract

The major problems associated with society’s adults are related to unhealthy behaviors, which often begin during adolescence and represent major public health challenges. The substance abuse has a major impact on almost all parts of life including individuals, families, and communities, as its effects are cumulative, contributing to costly social, and mental health problems worldwide. In India, the last two decades have been a period of rapid increase in the percentage of substance abusers. Substance abuse prevalence is higher among adolescence and young adults. Adolescent life is becoming more and more stressful largely due to an ever-increasing debt, hardships and crisis that the adolescent face. Mostly widely use substance abuse includes tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and nicotine. Substance abuse is no more a personal problem; substance abuse destroys a person’s life, families and communities. Now a day people abuse substance to overcome depression, anxiety, fear, low self-esteem, frustration or to attain of pleasure. Many have experimented various drugs or alcohol and problem started when this experimental use became abuse, the adverse consequence of substance abuse affects not only the individual user, but also the families and society. Hence, it is necessary to provide health promotion programs directed toward adolescents and their families. It will help to improve the knowledge among adolescents to comply with ill effects of substance abuse and to continue with healthy living. This review mainly focuses on the current status of substance abuse associated factors, which may help the adult generation to understand prevalence and allied serious problems and to improve the abuse rate.