Substance abuse impact on youth and challenges for the future introduction
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13. Substance Abuse – Impact on youth and challenges for the future
The wants and needs of human life are unlimited. After satisfying one need another need emerges. The satisfaction of each need has its own problem as each need is fulfilled only when the human being goes through certain hurdles and these creates a chain of various problems. A drug is a chemical substance, that affects physiological or bodily functions, mood, consciousness or perception, behavior and which, if misused or abused, may prove to be detrimental to the individual and to the community at large.
According to World Health Organization “drug addiction is a state of periodic or chronic
intoxication, detrimental to the individual and to the society, produced by repeated
consumption of a drug, either natural or synthetic.”
The common terms in drug addiction are drug abuse, drug tolerance and drug
dependence