Increasing Social Problems Due to Addiction and Drug Abuse: A Socio-Pathological Study

The paper explores the nature of social problems in association with increasing addiction and drug
abuse especially within the youth of both genders in all societies. Earlier societies used to have a
definite structure, but it has been subject to increasing change due to industrialization and
urbanization in the past two centuries. The two faces of addiction and drug abuse are widely and
increasingly appearing in the modern time due to changing societies into industrial-urban atmosphere
which changed values, norms, relationships etc. So, under such circumstances societies need to be
sociologically and pathologically studied to reach a type of social control as far as the newly-born
abnormalities are concerned. By social pathology we mean such serious mal-adjustments between
the various elements in the cultural configuration so as to endanger the survival of the group or as
seriously to interfere into the satisfactions of the fundamental desire of its members, with the result
that social cohesion is destroyed. So, social pathology is the study of man's failure to adjust himself
and his institutions to the necessities of existence to the end that he may survive and meet fairly with
the felt needs of his nature. It also studies and controls the expanding crimes. The method of research
used in the current research is of qualitative type.