Caracterización del consumo de drogas y factores relacionados en adolescentes de la Unidad Educativa Dr. Carlos Monteverde. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: The consumption or abuse of licit or illicit drugs and their consequences, both physical and emotional, represents a health problem in Ecuador according to the national council for the control of narcotic and psychotropic substances, in 2014 and 2015 there was an excessive increase of drug consumption and especially of new synthetic drugs such as the so-called hache. Material and Methods: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, whose processing was to collect information through a survey prepared by the author. The sample shows 150 students randomly selecting 75 from a parallel of each course, in the morning and afternoon. Results: The risk factors were: family conflicts (67.3%), friends who use drugs (66%), frequent tardiness to school ((52%), life prevalence and the last thirty days were 47.3% and 6% respectively. The age of onset between 10 to 14 years (30.6%).Main reasons were curiosity (36%) and feeling good (8%).The first drug consumed was the hache (38%) followed by marijuana (10%) The street was the place of consumption and acquisition of drugs in 40% and 41.3% respectively. Conclusions: one out of every two adolescent students has used drugs at some time in the life and one out of every 15 currently does, Consumption begins in early adolescence with the "H", reason for consumption is curiosity, street frequent site for use and acquires substance not allowed. Couples and group of pairs are risk factors found in the study population.