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Use of drug is increased in youth day by day. Adolescents are concerned with alcohol and legal or illegal drugs in different ways. Testing with alcohol and drugs throughout adolescence is common. Using alcohol and tobacco at a teenage increases the danger of using other drugs afterward.

Some youth will trial and stop or continue to use rarely, without significant troubles. Others will expand a dependency, moving on to more unsafe drugs and causing significant damage to themselves and others.

Drug dependence is a disease in which people begin addiction slowly and grow until the life of sufferer becomes progressively uncontrollable. It can destroy lives. The impact of it is often reflected in the family life of addicted individual, health, spiritual happiness, social life, school or work relationships and legal matters.

There are many centers for treatment of drug Addiction. Alcohol addiction is not an accepted cause and does not be a focus for much understanding from the general public. Yet the healing of just an addict has far-reaching effects, benefiting the wider society as well as the individual. It is not just the life of the addict that is crushed by alcohol addiction: their families and friends are all affected.

The following are the frequent behaviors that point to an individual are having a trouble with substance abuse. However, each person may experience symptoms in a different way. Symptoms may include:

• Talking a lot about using drugs
• Getting drugs on a regular basis
• Depressed, hopeless, or suicidal position
• Avoiding friends and family members
• Taking risks, such as sexual risks or driving under the influence of a substance
• Work performance suffers due to substance abuse before, after, or during working or studying hours

The physical results of use of drugs are:

• Heart disease: Enlarged heart and congestive heart failure are common in druggies
• Cancer: Mouth, esophagus and stomach cancer occur frequently.
• Birth defects: Women who take drugs during pregnancy can cause their unborn child to suffer birth defects.
• Brain damage: A variety of conditions from psychosis to permanent memory loss may occur in alcoholics.
• Liver damage: drugs often cause Cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis and cancer of the liver