Risk factors and protection of drug use among Salvadoran university students, 2007

Abstract

Drug use is multicausal, including the availability and trafficking of drugs that proliferates in the country, depends largely on the lack of prevention focused on strengthening values, attitudes, concerns and skills from home, school and State. In-depth interviews were conducted with experts on the subject and in writing to a sample of 382 students, distributed stratified in 8 Universities. According to the analysis of indicators studied, it is noted that about one third of the population is at imminent risk: individual family and socioeconomic insecurity 'among others. Advertising leads to the adoption of inappropriate behaviors and the use of licit and illegal drugs and all kinds of vices. If at high he is summed; that the University prioritizes professional instruction and paco comprehensive education; an inversely proportional relationship of risk and protection factors is generated: while promoting the wear of protective factors such as the practice of values ​​among others, the increase of risk factors of all types is allowed and with it the consumption of psychoactive substances. Given the growing risk, it is noted that the response of the University, family and State must be immediate.