Volunteering as one of the areas of work on the prevention of addictions among young people

The use of psychoactive substances among the younger generation has reached a critical level in modern Russian society. The main threat of addictions is the inevitability of the spread of psychoactive substances among the youngest and most vulnerable due to the age characteristics of the development of the population group, the destruction of the human psyche, as well as the lack of protective mechanisms to protect against the effects of drugs. Currently, various institutions, including educational ones, are developing and implementing comprehensive preventive, rehabilitation and psychocorrection programs to counter the use of psychoactive substances. However, the real situation in the country shows that the existing measures are clearly not enough, often they are formal in nature and require new more effective forms of work. Higher educational institutions are no exception, where the work on the prevention of addictions is not systemic in nature, does not cover a sufficient number of students and the most popular form of addiction prevention work is psychodiagnostics and questionnaires about the spread of addictions.
To solve this problem, employees of the Department of Communicology and Psychology of Southwestern State University and the Department of Health Psychology and Neuropsychology of Kursk State Medical University systematically study the main forms of addictions among students. The analysis of the results of the latest comprehensive study made it possible to determine the main trends in changing the structure of consumption of harmful substances, as well as the socio-psychological causes of addictions of boys and girls. In the course of studying the problem, the assumption was confirmed that young people with clear life guidelines, the desire to be necessary and useful to society, are not at risk of predisposition to various kinds of addictions.

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