Use of drugs among students from a high school, Corrientes – Argentina

• Autores: Morales Ojeda, Ismael Antonio, Cerda Aedo, Bárbara, Vallejo, María
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Peruana Unión
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Peruana Unión
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.revistas.upeu.edu.pe:article/1351
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.upeu.edu.pe/index.php/rc_salud/article/view/1351
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Drugs, education, health; Drogas, educación, salud.

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.