RISK-AND-PROTECTIVE-FACTORS for drug addiction

1. Risk and Protective
Factors for Drug
Addiction
Justin Quintana
Ella Botin
Ralph Jeano
Murillo
Jose Alaurin III
III BPED-B

2. What are they?
RISK FACTORS
• Characteristics of an
individual/community that encourage
or are linked to substance abuse.
PROTECTIVE FACTORS
• Characteristics of an
individual/community that discourage
or are not linked to substance abuse.

3. Individual and Environmental
INDIVIDUAL
• Risk/protective factors that are
part of the way a person is.
ENVIRONMENTAL
• Risk/protective factors that are
part of the community a person
belongs to.

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Individual risk
factors

5. BEING A BOY
- More boys than girls use substances, especially
illicit, but you need to be careful with under-reporting
(girls hide use more because it’s less acceptable).
BEING YOUNG
- To define his/her personality, a young person could
use substances:
• To experiment (what do I like? Where are my
limit? Who am I?).
• Declare his/her belongings to a group.
• Relieve anxiety

6. POOR PERSONAL AND SOCIAL SKILLS
- Less able to cope and more likely to use substances
to ‘solve’ problems or more likely to follow
substances use behavior of peers.
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
- Problems that make you less able to cope and
attract discrimination.

7. - A change in attitude is one of the best proxy
indicators for a (future) change in behavior.
INTENTION TO USE.
LACK OF INFORMATION & LOW
PERCEPTION OF RISK
- Information and awareness are necessary!
However, a change in the level of information and
awareness are not linked on their own to a change
in behavior.

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Environmental
risk factors

9. IN THE FAMILY
• Lack of physical or psychological care
• Inconsistent or too strict parenting
• Problems in the family, verbal, physical or
sexual abuse.
• Substance use by parents and/ or older
siblings
IN THE SCHOOL
• Low attachment to the school
• Low attendance and truancy

10. LACK OF OPPORTUNITIES
• To be educated.
• To find an adequate & fulfilling job.
• To employ free time constructively.
• To get help from youth-friendly health and social
services if you need it.
CULTURE
• How easy is it for (young) people to get
substances and to use them? Also, licit
substances!

11.  Sometimes programmes are too limited to have terms of
making less people start using substances.
 However, sometimes it is easy to show change in terms of
a risk factor that has been demonstrated to be linked to
substance abuse.
- If programmes are clear about the risk factors they
want to address, it is easier for them to show that they are
effective.

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Thanks!