INTRODUCTION

The incidence of substance abuse among youths is a matter that is of growing concern; it harms on a large scale both individual health and public welfare. Adolescents are in a formative phase, characterized by curiosity, experimentation, and greater susceptibility to external influences. When it comes to preventing substance abuse, it is important to understand better what causes youngsters take up drugs in the first place. First of all, we have to ask: Where does it come from? How do young people get hooked on such things? This indicates the complexity of the issue; in particular, drug abuse among youths in India can only be deteriorating day by day. Among common illicit substances misuse by young people are alcohol, cigarettes, cocaine, heroin, and even familiar household items like inhalers (sniffed for their intoxicating effects). Practices such as these have drastic consequences for young lives, impacting both their social and economic stability and personal peace and status. With the current wave of nicotine addiction and other drugs use among children and Adolescent youth in India, there is no time to lose.

For such an impending issue, we have to build drug prevention into the education program. Along with those other vital subjects, like mental health, nutrition and sex education which are imperative for their age group. It pays to raise awareness of drugs among teenagers ahead: Knowledge is power. Education not only works preventatively, but also gives our young people's brains a means to lead healthier and more productive lives. This paper explores the means through which society's educational sector can tackle the pervasive problem of substance abuse during adolescence, offering practicable strategies based on conclusive evidence to bring home the importance to future generations.

Reasons Why Adolescent Get Addicted:

Influences of Teenagers: The influence of their peers and the family at large has a considerable effect on this generation. Teenagers frequently dabble with substances like drugs and alcohol. Many feel that use of such substances betters their social image: they imagine liquor gives them more friends; cigarettes make them seem "cool"; or having a packet in hand is fashionable. This mistaken view often generates dangerous conduct and lasting judgments.

Curiosity and Experimentation: The Young people today are eager to try out new things. Many get into bad habits because they are too anxious or ignorant: it becomes an ongoing struggle with smoking or alcohol.

Availability: The fact that addictive substances are easy to obtain only exacerbates the problem. In today's world anything from alcoholic liquor to tobacco and drugs is often more easily obtainable than healthy alternatives. Even in places where such substances are banned and sold illegally, they still remain on hand for disturbed teenagers who need them.

Scholastic Pressure: The Same Goes for Subsequent Tools. Research has proved that a high intensity of study ultimately in school can diminish students’ desire to improve their grades, lower their performance in different disciplines and also encourages them (by chance or consciously) to leave school sooner. As they pretend to study, these pressures often surface physically: anxiety, headaches, poor sleep patterns. And all of these health problems, with a sense that there is nowhere else to turn but to medicine for their suffering any longer more concrete 'cure'.

On the Edge: Today's educational competitors put an enormous pressure on students to succeed. In order to meet these requirements, a large number of students resort to unhealthy practices such as swallowing substances to stay wake during late-night train marathons or otherwise cramming excessively. However, their health will be ruined while they exist like this; they also will depend on it.

Dilemma of Relationships: Emotional crises such as love problems or the death of a friend can make teenagers extra susceptible to addiction. Trying to alleviate their sorrow by dulling the mind or escaping from distress

History of Substance Abuse in the Family: It leads to a serious abuse of drugs or other substances if there are parents in the household who are doing the same. Children living with addicted adults around them tend to develop similar behavior problems themselves, since they are strongly influenced by a pattern at home and also by their parents' own ways.

Problems with Money: Hard times in a household drastically undermine children’s lives. Young people may be forced onto the street in various regions owing to financial difficulties inside the family: they get into contact with substance users and are sucked into a life of crime. Over time, these conditions often lead to substance abuse as a way for them to live up to their lives.

How Does Education Divert the Adolescents from Addiction:

Discover Mistakes from the Beginning: Education Plays a key role in making people recognize and therefore avoid mistakes that lead eventually to addiction such as substance abuse. By knowing both sides of the drug coin, people come to see the dangers concealed within substances they take. In this way they are better able to understand what's risky; early intervention through education can then serve as a guidance tool for somebody who seeks that guidance before clinging only in future upon full addiction.

Bringing Out Power In Everyone: Education gives people the ability to help themselves. In a sense, it convinces them that they really have something of their own. In this way educated individuals are enabled not only to steer clear of harm as far as substance abuse is concerned, but also often educate other people and create a chain reaction throughout local communities which renders these same things extinct one after another. That brings unity and strength to society too: everyone working together closely on anything that threatens them all equally.

how to correctly resolve concerns: One major fruit of education is the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. As a result of their training in rational thinking and detailed problem resolution, people can correct problems without doing harm to themselves. With the correct judgment, education provides a way out of difficulties and an escape from drug addiction.

Laying down roots for people: Education gives people life skills to survive and grow self-restraint and other human talents without the help of narcotics. It helps people form a strong barrier against the fierce competition in society. With these abilities behind them, people are not so likely to become addicts and so have healthier lives.

Effects of Substance Abuse on Adolescent:

Mental Health Consequences: -In children and teenagers, substance abuse has profound effects on mental health. Those who engage in substance use are much more likely to have mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, behavioural disorders, personality disturbances and in the worst-case scenario, suicidal ideation leading eventually to suicide attempts or self-harm. Substance abuse not only intensifies emotional suffering but also accentuates pre-existing fragilities which further complicate mental well-being.

Social and Economic Consequences: -Substance abuse has repercussions that extend beyond the individual and harm society as a whole as well as create pressures on public health and welfare programs. Illicit drug use harms productivity, raises public health care expenses and overburdens community resources. Substance abuse eats away at cultural and social harmony, corroding the fabric of society. The financial cost of this disadvantage is enormous, placing a tremendous economic burden upon families and society.

Involvement in Criminal Activities: -Substance abuse is frequently accompanied by an upsurge in criminal activity. Folk addicted to drugs may engage in theft, violence or other crimes to obtain their fix. Historical trends show that societies which have a lower prevalence of substance abuse on the whole report lower levels of crime, while societies where substance abuse is common have higher levels of criminal activity. This cyclical link between addiction and crime destabilizes communities and poses a great challenge to law enforcement officersand those working in public welfare.

Physical Health Consequences: -Substance abuse can lead to very serious damage to physical health. For example, chronic use of drugs like alcohol, nicotine and opioids can cause harm of various organs and tissues, weakened immune systems, heart and lung diseases. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable because their bodies are less well developed and better able to withstand the poisonous effects of these substances. Long-term substance abuse often causes irreversible physical damage, leaving sufferers with a drastically reduced quality of life and life expectancy.

Educational challenges of addiction: -Substances in schools. Surveys indicate: A student who abuses drugs is likely to get worse grades on exams than one who doesn't use drugs; students who don't take time out from their studies are less likely to turn in work on schedule. Of course, addictive behavior also constrains cognitive function such as memory and the attention span. These may all be un helpful to the studied environment Students who use substances this way often drop out after having ISOMEHING PUSHED on them over how their parents and guardians deal with the matter. As a result, the children place their future into a poison chalice that they themselves have brewed for themselves.

Emotional Barriers: - Substance abuse also separates people from their families, their friends, and their communities. For those who are addicted to opiates, it can mean that daily existence includes the pain of stigmatization and a sense of self-doubt; one may be shunned by family members or friends who don't understand what you're going through. Isolation reinforces the loneliness only addicts can feel. This cycle then perpetuates itself: the emotional agony drives people back to drugs use; drug dependence turns more people away from those they would turn to in time of need, i.e., others who might provide some kind of umbrella under which such distraught individuals might stand。

CONCLUSION

By offering individuals the choice they need to create better lives, education can also bring attention against drugs and alcohol. In particular, an early start to education provides young people with information about the dangers of drinking and taking drugs. It also lets them know that in the future when they become adults, they will have to deal with their health, emotional well-being and social standing all sorts of related problems. Along with teaching facts, educational programs also teach young people essential life skills. By using these skills, teenagers manage their difficulties properly and triumph over adversity; from their own point of view this is indeed a good outcome. Adolescent education that integrates the school is therefore important. It not only breaks free future generations of youth from the chains of social reality--thus transforming young humans and informing people who have good health without any need to use drugs will The result is both capable individuals that can act on their own thoughts (strong ) and well-informed members of society capable of living without need for alcohol or medicines.