Personality Traits of Substance Users in Bangladesh

Substance abuse is one of the major public health issues throughout the world that is causing serious social and economical burden to the different nations. The national co-morbidity survey in the USA found that the one year prevalence for drug misuse and drug dependence (excluding alcohol) was 3.6%, whilst the lifetime prevalence was 11.9%. 1- The cost of addictive illness to Americans is currently $144 billion per year in health care and jobloss.