Abstract

MARTINEZ FABREGAS, Leonor et al. Psychosocial effects of legal-type drugs. Prevention and Education. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2005, vol.9, n.4, pp. 10-18. ISSN 1561-3194.

In the first stage of the research a bibliographic study about the effects, causes and consequences that drugs of legal use provoke (mainly alcohol and tobacco) related with sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS was conducted. To carry out this research a representative sample of 50 students belonging to Simón Bolívar Medical Branch and neighbours from No. 47 Doctor?s Office in Hermanos Cruz Community was taken. This topic is inserted into prioritized projects of Family Care and Health Prevention because the family is the most affected by drug addiction and drug use being alcohol "known as a Porter Drug" one of the most harmful. Alcohol provokes significant harms to health from biological psychological and social points of view. The project is aimed at finding out alternatives of solution for the prevention, early detection and education by means of the application of a comprehensive strategy. A multidisciplinary team is taking the responsibility the study of this problem because it goes beyond Primary Health Care to become into a holistic, interdisciplinary and an intersectorial problem where all social factors are involved. Though this research is expected to be used on Primary Health Care as one of the most important link inside social community system to face this problematic situation of international repercussion.

Keywords : DRUGS; prevention and control; adverse effects; PSYCHOLOGY; social; HEALTH EDUCATION; SEXUAL EDUCATION; FAMILY.

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