Page No 165-169
Elangbam Priyokumar Singh and Thiyam Kiran Singh
Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland.
According to the Magnitude of Substance Use in India, Executive Summary (2019)
about 2.1% and about 14.6% of the country’s population aged 10-75years uses opioids
and alcohol respectively. Further, it was found that Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh,
Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram have the highest prevalence of opioid use and alcohol
dependence rate for Manipur state is 3.8% in the general population. Considering the
alarming situation of the opioid use, alcohol dependence and well established associated
co-morbid psychiatric conditions; this study compared Depression, Anxiety, Stress
between Opioid dependents and Alcohol dependents. For the study 200 males
participants aged 18-45 fulfilling the study criteria were selected through purposive
sampling from the different hospitals, rehabilitation centres located in Manipur. The
selected participants were administered the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale by
Lovibond, & Lovibond. The data was analyzed using Descriptive statistics and t-test.
This study found that socio-demographic characteristics of the sample is not significantly
different. Further, there is no significant difference found between the two groups with
regard to depression (pÃ0.05) and stress (pÃ0.05) though there is significant difference
in case of anxiety (pÂ0.01).