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Abstract Background: Drug dependence occurs when need one or more drugs to function. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) used to distinguish between dependence and abuse. Abuse was considered the mild or early phase of inappropriate drug use that led to dependence. People viewed dependence as a more severe problem than abuse. It's possible to be dependent on drugs without being addicted. Dependence can be a bodily response to a substance. This often occurs if rely on medications to control a chronic medical condition. Objectives: 1) To assess the pre test knowledge of adolescent students regarding Problems of drug dependence. 2) To assess the post test knowledge of adolescent students regarding Problems of drug dependence. 3) To evaluate the effectiveness of Planned teaching programme on knowledge of adolescent students regarding Problems of drug dependence. 4) To determine the association between pre test knowledge of adolescent students regarding Problems of drug dependence and selected demographic variables. Hypothesis: H1 - There will be significant difference between pre test and post test knowledge scores of adolescent students regarding Problems of drug dependence. H2- There will be significant association between the pre test knowledge of adolescent students regarding Problems of drug dependence and selected demographic variables. Methodology: The research design consisted of pre experimental research design of one group pretest and post-test design. The population selected for the study was adolescent students of selected PU colleges at Bangalore. The study samples were 60 adolescent students and were selected by using purposive sampling technique. The development of the tool involved steps of test construction i.e. preparing the blue print, selection of items, content validation and establishment of reliability. The content validity of the questionnaire was done and modifications were done according to the suggestions given by the experts. Pre testing and reliability of the tools were done. The reliability co efficient of the knowledge questionnaire was found to be 0.893. The tool was found to be reliable. Results: In the pretest, level of knowledge of adolescent students studying in PU colleges of Bangalore before using Planned Teaching Programme. Where as in posttest level of knowledge of adolescent students studying in PU colleges of Bangalore after using Planned Teaching Programme majority 50(83.4%) of them had adequate knowledge and remaining 10(16.6%) had moderately adequate knowledge regarding Problems of drug dependence. Hence Planned Teaching Programme had increased level of knowledge. The mean difference in knowledge level of the adolescent students regarding Problems of drug dependence was -18.7 with standard deviation of 3.11 and its t-value was equal -46.61 which was highly significant as its p-values was less than 0.0001. Hence Planned Teaching Programme was effective in increasing the knowledge. Area wise comparison of mean pre-test and post-test score of the adolescent students regarding problems of drug dependence mean post-test score was higher as compared to mean pre-test score and was highly significant with p-value less than 0.0001. The study was concluded that there was a significant improvement obtained following Planned Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding problems of drug dependence. This study was recommended that there is an immense need for educational programme to improve the knowledge regarding problems of drug dependence among adolescent students.