Prevention of Psychoactive Substance Abuse in Primary Schools
Keywords:
psychoactive substance, drugs, drug abuse, risk factors, prevention, deviant behaviourAbstract
This paper represents just one more attempt to reveal widely-spread problem drug addiction among young people, explaining the problem through basic principles on which programmes of prevention are based. Spread of drug abuse among pupils, the growing number of young drug addicts, and lowering age level when the first contact with drugs occurs are just part of the deteriorating results of numerous studies in our schools and a serious alarm for society as a whole that we have to deal with the problem in a serious way.
The most effective, the most economical and the most reasonable measure against drug abuse is the prevention based on education and information, which play key roles.
Drug abuse prevention programmes which are being implemented in our school are mostly aimed at reducing some well-known risk factors.
The education of the system can deal with risk factors, but can also impact the protection factor.
Parents should also be involved in prevention programmes, in a way that they should emphasise the importance of the facts learnt at school and enable the possibility for this discussion within the family. Regarding the fact that the prevention aimed at the family has a stronger impact than strategies aimed only at parents or only at children.
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