A study on alcoholism and its manifold effects among the youth in slums of saidapet

Alcoholic beverages, known since Vedic period, are used for worship purposes, medicinal preparations, and widely consumed as a relaxant.An informal social network in which group norms promote excessive drug use and alcohol consumption, at present, is ubiquitous and has been consistently increasing throughout the world.
Globally, harmful use of alcohol causes approximately 3.3 million deaths every year (5.9% of all deaths), and 5.1% of the global burden of disease is attributable. Elder’s murder has increased by their sons, orphans increasing day by day, widows members also increasing alcohol consumption. It causes more than 60 different disorders and is the third most important risk factor for the global burden of disease.
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety but human connection. George Monbiot has called the modern times as the ‘age of loneliness’. So far people have spoken of only individual recovery, now it is time that we spoke of ‘social recovery. A person with this condition does not know when or how to stop drinking. They spend a lot of time thinking about alcohol, and they cannot control how much they consume, even if it is causing serious problems at home, work, and financially.
Present research in slum youth at Saidapet has substance use interventions for homeless youth would get drinking habit from the integration of community, family and friends into tradition intervention, such as parts and community festival. Harm reduction interventions, such as job skills training and supportive housing, may also be effective at decreasing youth alcohol consumption.
While traditional approaches used for community-based interventions may need to be adapted in terms of available resources, scope, and the mode of delivery, there are clear and pragmatic evidence-based strategies that can be implemented and evaluated to address the tremendous burden of alcohol and harm in this and similarly vulnerable population in low resource such as slums.
Developing brain science has set the stage for inclusion of the process addictions, including food, sex, shopping, internet and gambling problems, in a broader definition of addiction as set forth by the American Society of Addiction Medicine in 2011.