TAILIEUCHUNG - Perception of the effects of drug use among adolescents

At the global level, drug use and trafficking are a dynamic phenomenon, being strongly influenced by a multitude of social and economic factors. and in Romania, drug use and trafficking present new forms of manifestation, requiring increasingly varied approaches, being known as a complex phenomenon, characterized by permanent mutations. | Perception of the effects of drug use among adolescents Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 3 151-161 February 2020 ISSN 2668-7798 Perception of the effects of drug use among adolescents Sandu Mihaela Luminița Ovidius University of Constanta Romania mihaela_naidin@ Rus Mihaela Ovidius University of Constanta Romania psiholog_m@ Rus Ciprian Vasile PhD. Independent Researcher Abstract. At the global level drug use and trafficking are a dynamic phenomenon being strongly influenced by a multitude of social and economic factors. and in Romania drug use and trafficking present new forms of manifestation requiring increasingly varied approaches being known as a complex phenomenon characterized by permanent mutations. If some twenty years ago Romania was known as a state where only drugs were transited in the last ten years our country has been transformed into a market for drug use especially heroin. Even though our country is below the European average for drug use the latest studies conducted by the National Drug Agency indicate a lifetime prevalence of for any type of drug in the general population while among the population for 16-year-old students this type of prevalence stands at 10 which shows significant increases in drug use in Romania at the level of the entire population but especially among the young. Keywords. perception effects drugs consumption adolescents Introduction The dynamics dimensions and characteristics of drug use in Romania are aspects that underpin the government policy in this field. Therefore the intervention of the society must focus on at least four dimensions social economic political and not least moral. Addiction is an increasingly visible phenomenon with wide and sometimes serious consequences at the individual and community level and in this quality it highlights a series of hypotheses and perspectives regarding both the substances and the situations in which they are related. creates .

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• Drug use and trafficking
• A dynamic phenomenon
• Multitude of social
• Social and economic factors
• Forms of manifestation