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Volume 4 Issue 2 (March - April, 2016)

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EVALUATION OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE DRUG ABUSERS VISITING DRUG DE-ADDICTION CENTRE AT FARIDKOT, PUNJAB
Hobinder Arora, Sanjay Gupta, K.S. Kajal, Preeti Padda, Shamim Monga, Shalini Devgan, Vishal Gupta

Drug abuse is ruining the young generation and future of the country. Thus there presents a need to study the circumstances which attract the people towards the substance abuse. Hence the present study was undertaken to study the socio-demographic profile of the drug abusers. Methodology: The present cross-sectional study comprised of 200 drug addicted patients visiting the de-addiction centre. A pretested questionnaire was designed for elucidating the information from the patients about their problem and the other demographic variables. After getting information through face to face interviews, predesigned Performa was duly filled and results were interpreted accordingly and statistically analyzed by using Chi-square test with p value <0.05 as significant value.  Results: All the patients who approached for de-addiction services were males Nearly half of the patients (50%) coming for treatment were in the age group of 25-35 years, with maximum incidence for seeking de-addiction between ages 25-30 years (34%). 42% of the sample population belonged to single parent families. The distribution of patients in terms of their socio-economic status showed that the highest proportion of the patients (38%) were coming from the lower middle class. 21.5% of the sample was from upper lower class; and 16% were from the lower class. 14% were from the upper class and 10.5% belonged to the upper middle class. Conclusion: This epidemiological study points towards a range of factors which are implicated in this problem including the family structure, the type of social environment, unemployment, peer influence, experimenting tendencies of the adolescents etc. Improvement in a single factor cannot effectively help to curb this complex problem.
Keywords: Drug abuse; De-addiction; Punjab.

Corresponding author: Dr. Hobinder Arora, PG Resident, Department of Community Medicine, G.G.S. Medical College Faridkot, Punjab

This article may be cited as: Arora H, Gupta S, Kajal K.S., Padda P, Monga S, Devgan S, Gupta V. Evaluation of socio-demographic profile of the drug abusers visiting drug de-addiction centre at Faridkot, Punjab. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2016;4(2):135-141.

 
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