Addiction et santé mentale : Ces drogues qui déciment la jeunesse
Alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, diverted psychotropic drugs, and new synthetic products: these substances are gaining ground among Senegalese youth, seriously threatening their physical and mental health. During an awareness-raising workshop for journalists on health, population, and development, the Directorate of Maternal and Child Health (DSME) sounded the alarm about this growing crisis.
Abdoulaye Ndione, a psychologist at the Adolescent Health Department, explains: "Adolescence is a period of great vulnerability, where curiosity, peer pressure, and the desire to experiment push many young people toward consumption. What begins as a simple experiment can quickly turn into a serious addiction."
Among the most commonly consumed substances, the expert cites alcohol, which impairs cognitive abilities and motor control, cannabis, associated with memory disorders, tobacco and nicotine, responsible for rapid addiction and cardiovascular diseases, diverted psychotropic drugs (benzodiazepines, opiates), used without medical prescription with a high risk of overdose, and new synthetic products (NPS), with unpredictable and highly toxic effects.
"The consequences are dramatic: anxiety, depression, social isolation, academic failure, marginalization, and, in some cases, a shift to delinquency," he emphasizes. "These drugs are decimating young people because they destroy not only their health, but also their future," the specialist insists.
Faced with this situation, the DSME calls for increased mobilization for prevention, awareness and care for young people affected by these addictions, in order to protect their mental health and their future.
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Voilà, en gros l'origine des actes de criminalité et d'agression manifestes dans notre société. Le gouvernement, par le biais de la justice, doit être très rigoureux envers les dealers et les convoyeurs de ces produits. Un contrôle strict envers les étrangers qui souhaitent entrer dans notre pays, à partir des frontières terrestres ( Guinee, Guinee Bissau Gambie ,Mauritanie et le Mali) ,comme ils le font vis à vis des Sénégalais qui entrent chez eux.
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@"Voilà, en gros l'origine des actes de criminalité et d'agression manifestes dans notre société". ...notre enkuleur de guenon il prend quoi ?...C''est pour un ami !!
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