Use of drugs among students from a high school, Corrientes – Argentina
Objective: Identify the main factors that lead adolescents to use drugs, analyzing the frequency of use.Methodology: descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a sample of 124 adolescents and youngpeople between 13 and 21 years of age, from a public secondary school in the province of Corrientes-Ar...
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| Publicado en: | Revista Científica de Ciencias de la Salud |
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| Lenguaje: | español |
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Universidad Peruana Unión
2020
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| Sumario: | Objective: Identify the main factors that lead adolescents to use drugs, analyzing the frequency of use.Methodology: descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a sample of 124 adolescents and youngpeople between 13 and 21 years of age, from a public secondary school in the province of Corrientes-Argentina. Results: The most frequent consumption experience was with alcohol (87.90%), thentobacco (28.22%) and marijuana (12.09%). As for the dimension “Social Permission” and “Accessibilityto Psychoactive Substances”, 62.10% He surrounds himself with friends who think that it is not wrongto get drunk, while 33.06% feel the need to consume alcohol or drugs when they are in a bar, clubor other place, considering drug consumption as normal in 57.26%. Regarding the “Preconceptions”dimension, only 33.87% considered that it was difficult for young people like them to obtain drugs.Conclusion: In this sense, it is necessary to provide educational support to the school, through talksthat allow dealing with drug use. |
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| ISSN: | 2411-0094 2306-0603 |