Young people and addiction in numbers |
Posted: July 29, 2019 |
During your studies, you may have been asked to respond to a survey of your consumption of products such as the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD), or HBSC (Health Behavior in School-aged Children) , two European studies. If you have missed it, you may be entitled to ESCAPAD (Health and Behavior Survey of the Defense Preparedness Call), a survey of 40,000 young people on the occasion of the preparation day. Defense to which all boys and girls between the ages of 17 and 20 are subject. Here you can get an addiction statistics of these studies. Panorama of addictive behaviors in adolescence Like what is observed in the adult population, the three main psychoactive products consumed by young people are alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. For example, at the age of 17, less than one in ten never took any of these three products and almost nine out of ten teens tried alcohol at least. However, the uses of these three products appear sequenced throughout adolescence. Although some uses have progressed, it is a relative stability, or even a delay in the initiation of products that emerges from surveys of adolescents and young adults, who smoke their first cigarette on average at 14 years, a year before first alcoholic intoxication and first joint, reported shortly after 15 years. For tobacco, for example, there has been a steady increase in use since the beginning of secondary schooling (6% of daily smokers aged 13-14 in the fourth year, 32% at 17 years) to adulthood (37%). % of daily smokers between 18 and 25 years old). For a number of adolescents who are early tobacco experimenters (10% in 6th, 20% in 5th, 32% in 4th, 49% in 3rd), the encounter with the product is not limited to a simple experiment. It is indeed an initiation, which is part of an addictive behavior likely to continue, in connection with the particularly addictive nature of tobacco. The evolution of cannabis use is different. This product is mainly consumed by the "big" teenagers and it is more than elsewhere in Europe present in very varied environments. THREE-QUARTERS OF YOUNG ADULTS SPONTANEOUSLY STOP USING CANNABIS WHEN THEY ENTER THE LABOR FORCE, BECOME PART OF A COUPLE, OR THE FIRST CHILD ARRIVES. The same goes for alcohol and heavy drinking behaviors (IPA), which culminate between 17 and 25 years before decreasing with the taking of adult responsibilities. On the other hand, the regular use of alcohol tends to increase with the advancing age. Although initiation into alcohol often takes place very early, for the great majority of young people, API-type behavior is transient and strongly associated with the period of high school and higher education. In the recent period, the use of psychoactive substances has undergone several changes. Firstly, there is an increase in the spread of cannabis in the national territory, present in all regions and much more consumed than in most European countries, in parallel with a rather weak presence of most other illicit drugs. , unlike other European over-users of cannabis (such as the United Kingdom, Spain or the Czech Republic). The other significant feature of addictive behavior in adolescent populations is the persistence of high levels of smoking and the increase in the prevalence of IPA over the last few years, which is indicative of renewed patterns of alcohol consumption in the past. Within the younger generations, in the sense of a rapprochement of the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon models (irregular but punctually intensive consumption). However, some young people are confronted with a problematic use of the product: this is the case for 6% of 18-25 year olds who have a high risk of problematic cannabis use according to the CAST (Cannabis Abuse Screening Test) questionnaire while that 14% may be considered chronic risk drinkers. The young people who are in these cases can consult new devices, the Consultations Young Consumers (CJC) which each year welcome some 35,000 young people in difficulty with their practice. If they are most often referred by the courts, they can also turn to the CJCs on their own initiative or through a relative. The main product behind these consultations is cannabis, even though its share in the active file has decreased in ten years.
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