Introduction: Among the many epidemic problems which India is fighting today, two very important social epidemics worth exploration are the issues of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (in reference to parent-child relationship, divorce & single parenting) & substance use among adolescents. Worldwide there is an enormous amount of literature on these issues and their shared interactions, but in Indian context we find ourselves far behind with just sparse amount of literature on the same. Methodology: A qualitative exploratory model is used for retrospective study of clinical cases of alcohol/ substance use in children/ adolescents of single parent family who visited a Deaddiction-Rehabilitation-Counselling Center in Andhra Pradesh for treatment during the period from January 2014 till July 2016. The cases are identified and studied considering review literature on the topic. Conclusion: This article reminds us about the importance of long preserved Indian culture where people had immense respect for the sacrosanct union & sanctity of marriage. We need to return back to our sacred ancestral ideologies so as to preserve a world where our kids are not drug driven but have actually moral base to their decisions in life. We can dream of a world without drug abuse only if our family environment is healthy with immense social support for our next generation.

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This paper looks at a qualitative review and concept map approach of deviant sexual behavior in patients with substance abuse. 8 cases are analyzed and presented in a clinically relevant format.

Genital self-mutilation (GSM) is a much rare finding and more commonly associated with psychosis when it comes to comparison with self-mutilation as a whole. There have been anecdotal case reports of GSM in psychotic disorders with most of them being in long standing psychoses. We describe herein a case of GSM during the first episode of psychosis where multiple phenomenological variables were seen responsible for the act.