Prevention of addictive behavior in adolescents

Addictive behavior in adolescents may be due to difficulties in adapting and socializing. Today, teens are exposed to a large number of risk factors that negatively affect their behavior and health. The analysis of the close social environment and the personal characteristics of adolescents, consumers of toxic substances, highlights the fact that addictive behavior is the result of both the influence of personal and microsocial factors. The latest research and publications acknowledge that for some adolescents, drug use is part of a lifestyle. In this regard, programs to prevent the use of toxic substances are based on learning centered on the model of social influence. The main purpose of socio-psycho-correctional prevention programs is to create the optimal conditions for training the mechanisms to deal with pathogenic influences. Educational programs for the prevention of addictive behavior are recognized as the most effective in the context of combining psychosocial and causal models. Our study is more interested in the primary prevention of addictive behavior in adolescents.