Perception of the effects of drug use among adolescents

Sandu Mihaela Luminita (), Rus Mihaela () and Rus Ciprian Vasile ()
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Sandu Mihaela Luminita: Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania
Rus Mihaela: Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania
Rus Ciprian Vasile: PhD., Independent Researcher

Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2020, vol. 3, issue 1, 151-161

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 4.3% 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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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