Risk factors in the consumption of narcotic and psychotropic substances in adolescents from urban schools in the Tungurahua Province

Abstract

Legal or illegal drycommotionaffects and worriesto the set aboutthe society, when representing a phenomenon that deteriorates the quality of life, slowing down the economic development, the adolescents, as well as other groups of social risk, simultaneously that attempts against the public health.
In this research efforts have been made to know the risk factors that leads the young people from the province of Tungurahua to consume drugs with which it is tried to contribute evidences inthe search of solutions to problematic happiness, at laston basis of the studyto provide to charthem of education throughthe psychology race, with directed actions, to the establishment of a plan of prevention to the use and drug abuse within the program of entailment with the colectivitythat handles itself in the Technical University of Ambato.

It was found that the drug consumption began to very early age being the age of greater consumption between 12 to 16years, independently of the sort, found risk factors in these young people of schools of the province was mainiy, belonging to 
families with slight disfunsión or burdens, not to iater have recreational activitlesof ¡ts hours class, because programs in the schools do not exist, depression the same one that are deduced of the previous ones, is a good group that without ciassifying itseif in these risk factors consumes drugs to experiment.