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P0067 - Substance abuse to teenagers and young people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

L. Stoica*
Affiliation:
Alba Iulia University, Alba Iulia, Romania

Abstract

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The substance abuse, through its devastating effects and through its spreading fastness, represents an worrying phaenomena, worthy to be taken into consideration for every country's social frame of politics.

The vulnerable population to the substance abuse is the one formed of teenagers and young people predisposed to new experiences, easy to engage into risky behaviours.To prevent these behaviours it is imperative, first of all, that the teenagers and the young population, but, equally, their parents, to be well and correctly informed on the use of drugs, its effects and long term consequences.

This study wishes to be a modern approach against the substance abuse, offering a number of directions for measures to be taken concearning the development of services that involve and represent the synergic way of solving the complexe (psychosocial and educational) needs of the drug users.

As a final main idea, the present study has a prior objective to develop, into the parents mind, the ability of recognizing their children's first signs of substance abuse.

Type
Poster Session III: Alcoholism And Addiction
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2008
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