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Addiction is the most important problems of the contemporary society and on other hand self esteem is one of the most important variable and concept that might have meaningful influence on this problem. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between self-esteem and vulnerability to drug addiction among secondary school students. The sample consist of 100 of 10+2 secondary school students 50 each from the government school and private school were taken for the study from Shimla city of Himachal Pradesh. Self-Esteem Inventory has been used for assessing self-esteem of the secondary school students and their Vulnerability to Drug Addiction were measure on vulnerability to drug addiction scale statistical analysis Correlation and t-test and qualitative analysis were used. Finding indicated that self-esteem is significantly and negatively related with overall vulnerability to drug addiction in terms of its sub-factors among secondary school students.