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Sumbl Ahmad Khanday, Karanam Mahaboob Vali, Md Junaid
Aligarh Muslim University Centre Murshidabad (WB), India
Ishfaq Majeed
Govt. Degree Collage Pulwama, University of Kashmir
This paper attempts to present an overview of the profile of drug addicts in order to draw
scientific generalization of the prevalence and pattern of drug abuse among youth of
Kashmir. Research subjects consisted of 150 Kashmiri youths, aged 15 to 30 admitted
into a three inpatient/outpatient drug de-addiction centres of three districts of Kashmir
valley The recorded data were analysed using a qualitative framework i.e. Thematic
Content Analysis. The study revealed that youth of Kashmir have increasingly been
linked with the influence of social variables on their addictive behaviour such as age,
gender, caste, marital status, religion, education, occupation and place of residence.
Preventive strategies seeking to reduce the occurrence of drug abuse among those
who are at greater risk, should focus on the development of influential cognitive, social
skills and social bonding