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INTRODUCTION: Substance abuse is growing problem throughout the world and unfortunately this is more common among young children and adolescents, where they are about to begin their career but get involved in this problems due to various reasons. Substance abuse trend is a rapidly increasing trend among the young adults. It's really fascinating the young tender minds. Whereas there is definition that the individual depends on the certain substance or they make miss use of certain substances. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding substance abuse among adolescents in selected school of district Budgam, kashmir. METHODS: A pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used for the study. This study was carried out on 50 adolescents of a selected school of District Budgam. Samples were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Self-Structured questionnaire was used to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding substance abuse among adolescents in selected school of district Budgam, Kashmir. RESULTS: The findings of the study revealed that in pre-test 75% students had inadequate knowledge, 25% had moderately adequate knowledge and none had adequate knowledge regarding substance abuse while as in post-test 89% students had adequate knowledge, 11% had moderately adequate knowledge and none had inadequate knowledge regarding substance abuse. CONCLUSION: The study concluded that the Structured Teaching Programme was effective in improving the knowledge of students as evidenced by the significant changes in pre-test and post-test knowledge scores of students.