Sociodemographic profile of substance abusers attending a De-addiction centre in Ghaziabad

The widespread abuse of drugs and alcohol has become a human tragedy. The abuse of alcohol and other illicit drugs leads to many problems like decline in productivity, increase in crime rate, accidents, increased expenditure in rehabilitation and even death. The situation is likely to worsen and even may go out of hand if adequate measures are not taken to clearly identify the vulnerable group provide them with proper and maximal help. The present study has been done to explore the socio-demographic correlates like age, gender, educational status, occupation, age of initiation of substance abuse ,the type of substance used and positive family history in patients doing substance abuse. For this study patients coming to NDDTC AIIMS Ghaziabad were included