• Aruna Singh

India comprises the largest numbers of children among the whole population. Children are in the growing stages of development where they inculcate good habits, behaviour, morals and education. But if there is any gap in their developing ages, they can grow with the dreadful habits of substance abuse. This group is more vulnerable and more prone to substance abuse. Recently the number of substance abuse in children is increasing day by day which is slowly paralysing the backbone of our society. Most of the children start using substances during school days, but the treatment is given after a long period of time because the symptoms of adverse physical and psychological complications is not visible the very time of initiation of use of substances. These children usually found using substances like inhalants, tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis. Some children from poor families and broken families are engaged in child labour due to poverty and less paid too. They are also highly susceptible to substance abuse because there is a very close connection between drug abuse and child labour. Children from lower socio-economic background have more numbers of drop-out cases because of substance abuse and hardly given treatment for rehabilitation.

Children, substance abuse, vulnerable, child labour, poverty.

"PREVALENCE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG THE CHILDREN IN INDIAN CONTEXT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.53-55, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907V11.pdf

"PREVALENCE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG THE CHILDREN IN INDIAN CONTEXT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp53-55, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907V11.pdf