• Jaspal Debbarma
• Dr, Alam Ara
• Dr. Jahanara

Drug abuse is a global problem that poses a great danger to the lives of individuals, society and political stability and security in many countries. According to the United Nations (2005), the use of illicit drugs has increased throughout the world and the major world trend is the increasing availability of many kinds of drugs among ever widening spectrum of consumers. Of major concern is that school and collage going children and youth seem to be targeted as the new market for the drug industry globally. The purpose of this study is to understand the problems cause by the respondents due to drug addiction which is directly affected by the drug abusers to his/ her family, friend circle and the society, with special references to the youth in rural and urban area of west district, Tripura, India. The research study targeted the youth from rural and urban area of west district. Purposive sampling was used for the selection of study area and their respective respondent. A total of 100 respondents have been selected, which is 50 respondents from rural area and 50 respondents from urban area of west district, Tripura using systematic sampling. Questionnaires were used for data collection. Once the data was obtained from the field it was coded and analyses. On the basis of finding its Shows that 54 per cent of the rural respondents take drugs via injection, 46 per cent of the respondents smoke (like cigarette), 32 per cent of the respondents via oral (shallow), 12 per cent of the respondents sniff (via nose). Whereas, 66 per cent of the urban respondents take drugs via smoke (like cigarette), 48 per cent of the respondents via oral (shallow), 38 per cent of the respondents takes via injection, 22 per cent sniff ( via nose).

Problems of Drug addiction in youth

"“A STUDY ON THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE RURAL AND URBAN DRUG INFLICTED YOUTH WITH SPECIAL RESFERENCES TO WEST DISTRICT, TRIPURA”.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.788-793, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907868.pdf

"“A STUDY ON THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE RURAL AND URBAN DRUG INFLICTED YOUTH WITH SPECIAL RESFERENCES TO WEST DISTRICT, TRIPURA”.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp788-793, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907868.pdf