Assessment of Substance Use among Students Studying In Islamabad, Pakistan

Abstract

Since beginning of the history, humans had searched for substance that acts on nervous system to produce pleasure sensation. In developing countries recent trends indicates a dramatically increased in the use of psychoactive substance despite of medical advancement in the 21st century [1]. Alcohol is as old as human history and believed to be first known chemical mood modifier [2]. Persistent substance uses without an unrelated medical practices refers to harmful and hazardous illicit drugs lead to dependence syndrome according the World Health Organization. The dependence syndrome develops after repeated substance use is a cognitive and physiological phenomenon increased physical withdrawal state [3].