La drogadicción en los jóvenes de 14 a 16 años del cantón Huaquillas con la intervención del trabajador social

Abstract

Drug use in young people is associated with poor judgment in social and personal disturbances, it is also associated with high-risk sexual activity such as unsafe sex and unplanned pregnancy. Drug addiction, which is also known as substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person's brain and behavior and results in an inability to control the use of legal or illegal drugs or medications. All substance use, including experimental use, puts young people at risk for short-term problems such as accidents, fights, unwanted sexual activity, and overdose. Juvenile drug addiction is considered a disease because it affects the physical, psychological and social aspects of the individual, i.e. overall health. Drug abuse at a very young age can contribute to the development of problems such as heart disease, addiction, anxiety, among others. However, the decision about consumption and the individual's responsibility are vital both in the beginning and in the maintenance and possible treatment. Hence, it is imperative to address its study, since it is an unfortunate social reality that is lived today, with a higher percentage of consumption in young people. The present research work precisely presents this reality developed in four themes, drugs, drug use today, juvenile drug addiction in the canton of Huaquillas, drugs and prevention. Research on drug-related problems has made it clear that strategies to prevent drug use and associated problems must be diverse and comprehensive. Prevention activities often focus only on some of the factors that contribute to drug use. The theoretical framework of this work includes a bibliographic compilation of different authors with a constructive paradigm, through the description of the problem causing drug addiction in young people from 14 to 16 years of age in the Huaquillas Canton, also describing the dependent and independent variants also other relevant sub-themes that add to the research topic, with different conceptualizations supported by the database of different academic scientific journals. In the research methodology, the Deductive and Inductive method is used, which allowed us to make a study on the existing problem, so it was applied in the research techniques, the survey and interview to collect the necessary information in which we can appreciate, analyze what are the problems that push many young people to consume this type of substances at a very early age; which over time becomes a health problem for society. The experience in this research was not only to collect data but also to generate a collaboration, in which different intervention proposals can be established in order to reduce and eradicate drug use in young people from 14 to 16 years of age in the Huaquillas Canton with the intervention of the Social Worker.