The Social ION
Year : 2013, Volume : 2, Issue : 1
First page : ( 129) Last page : ( 144)
Print ISSN : 2319-3581. Online ISSN : 2456-7523.

Drug addiction among women

Dr. Chowdhary Richa

Department of Social Work, B.R. Ambedkar College University of Delhi, Delhi, India. Email: richachoudhary2004@yahoo.com

Online published on 27 June, 2017.

Abstract

Drug dependency is a serious social problem and there is the need to assess the nature and extent of this problem. It is spread out within allover world and within all age group of people whether it is male or female. When the female got affected by this then family comes in trouble and can destroy too. The primary purpose of the study was to ascertain the nature and extent of drug addiction among women, to know its real grass root causes and consequences in order to find out preventive and controlling devices. Study has been conducted on women belonging to the age group of 18 to 45 years of age and residing, both, rural and urban areas along with different education and income levels. And the sample number were 1000 in totality. And this was the focus of the study.

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Keywords

Drug, women, Rural, epidemic, education.

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