Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Youth drug addiction and alcoholism are still a pressing problem today, despite the work being done with students to prevent drug abuse and suppress illegal trafficking, as well as alcohol consumption. Recently, there has been a high increase in the incidence of alcoholism among young people. The number of young people suffering from alcoholism is 20.7% per 100 thousand of the population. It is believed that alcoholism and drug addiction, caused in some cases by the use of low-alcohol drinks, as well as modern psychotropic substances - spice, are more common in adolescence and young age than in adulthood. This is due to the fact that this category is more vulnerable, immature, their body is more sensitive and therefore the risk of becoming an alcoholic or drug addict increases. Modern scientists develop in great detail the explanation of the emergence of alcohol and drug addiction and identify three main groups of drug addiction factors: sociological, biological and psychological. The problem of drug addiction has reached its peak in Ukraine. This is confirmed by the data provided in the National Strategy of Ukraine on Drugs for the period until 2020): the ratio of the number of drug addicts in Ukraine remains 33 people per 10 thousand population, which significantly exceeds the level in most civilized countries of the world. The low effectiveness of preventive work, treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts remains a serious problem. Of particular danger is the drug trafficking of heroin and cocaine through the territory of Ukraine to the countries of the European Union, the growth of drug trafficking and corruption, the growth of illegal trafficking of synthetic drugs, and the rejuvenation of drug users. This problem also greatly affects such a segment of the population as students, starting from the first and ending with the last years.
Authors: S. Abramov, V. Nazymok, V. Golubeva
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410729908