Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introducon Rates of drug abuse has reportedly been skyrockeng among teenagers according to the Philippine Naonal Police’s Women and Children Protecon Center (WCPC), where for only two months span in 2016 almost 20,580 minors has been submied to the law compromising 98% drug users while 65% where first-me offenders that did not hold specificaons of being actual first-me users. As of 2018, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency was alarmed to the rampant involvement and exploitaon of minors in illegal drug trade within the country where 13.12 % of the total rescued minor were not just drug mediums, but drug users as well. The exhibited deliquency, however upseng, is allegedly ed to probable conflicts and circumstances a teen have experienced and trapped into where such behavior has been regarded to mental health problems. Adolescence in essence is a person’s life point of enormous changes, deep strive for independency and strong need to establish identy where peers holds the tle of biggest influencers. At this stage, a young adults are opmisc with a goal drawn in mind yet are bound to face challenging social, family, academic difficules and crisis. Failure to achieved ideal ambions oſten induce depression and anxiety which results to a neuroc need for