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Attempts to understand why people use intoxicants have been made since the phenomenon arose in society. Understanding the causes of drug addiction in adolescents and how a teenager becomes addicted to drugs is very important for planning and carrying out preventive work.

The age of onset of drug use is most often between 12 and 16 years of age, but there may be both earlier and later initiation to drugs.

The main reasons leading adolescents to drug addiction are:

Curiosity: thirst to experience new sensations ("everything in life must be experienced, tried"), to test oneself in a new situation.

Curiosity is one of the great human traits. It usually manifests itself at an early age and predetermines the development of cognitive inclinations. Children try drugs primarily for educational purposes, to experience their effects on themselves. In various geographical regions of the world, there are certain age criteria for people to start using drugs. The greatest number of cases of drug use occurs in adolescence.

Imitation: the desire to be like friends, acquaintances, to correspond to one's group.

Desire to have fun ("get high"). The desire for pleasure is characteristic of all living things and is inherent in any, not only pathological, personality. The onset of abuse and the clinical presentation of the disease provide abundant evidence for the significance of the pleasure-seeking motive. These include the use of euphoric substances; deliberate increase in doses in order to maintain euphoria; preference for the intravenous route of administration, which achieves the greatest euphoric effect; the use of additional means to obtain euphoria; taking the drug not in those doses that prevent the withdrawal syndrome, but in those that give euphoria.

Environmental influence: older or significant person for a teenager (often this is an older brother, as well as a school or sports idol). A teenager wants to be involved in the "chosen ones", who have their own jargon, a special lifestyle, certain behaviors.

Relief of the mental state. A person seeks to forget, relax after the trouble, relieve stress.

Feeling of protest. For example, when drugs are used by a close friend, parents. A teenager can protest against the demands imposed on him in the family and school.

Personal inferiority. Pathological mental problems.

Genetic causes. hereditary predisposition.

Thus, the most common reason for adolescents to get involved in drugs is the desire to be like their friends, acquaintances, and fit in with their peer group.

After a while, the mechanisms of not only group imitation, but also pressure begin to work. And the desire to be like everyone else, not to be a "black sheep" wins.

The problem of the use of marijuana ("weed", plan) is especially acute, since there is an opinion among adolescents that there are no negative consequences of their use. But after a year, the effect of "weed" weakens, the search for a stronger drug begins, and most often it becomes raw opium, administered intravenously. In the future, a group of people with whom a teenager uses drugs becomes more and more a guideline for his behavior.

Authors: Aizman R.I., Krivoshchekov S.G.

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