Current era is facing a grave pandemic in the form of drug/ alcohol addiction and mental health illnesses. Unfortunately, a strong taboo is associated with both these types of mental health issues. Drug and alcohol dependence is a combination of social and psychological factors that lead to irresistible tendencies to abuse particular type of harmful substance. This behavioral problem puts an individual in a state of mind of compulsiveness, unrealistic euphoria and inability to realize the gravity of problems upfront. Families and society in large suffer from adverse effects of this gruesome habit.