{"id":44464,"date":"2018-07-13T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T22:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=44464"},"modified":"2018-07-13T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T22:05:36","slug":"addictions-among-young-people-the-solution-is-in-the-educational-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/addictions-among-young-people-the-solution-is-in-the-educational-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Addictions among young people: the solution is in the educational relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFrance is one of the European countries where adolescents consume the most narcotics. 80% of them experiment several products – tobacco, alcohol and cannabis, according to the figures of the French Observatory of the drugs and the addiction<\/a>. One in four 15-year-olds, and almost one in two at 17<\/a>, has already touched cannabis. As for regular use, it concerns one in ten adolescents (9.2%). But from the age of 25, epidemiological surveys show that these rates decrease considerably. The use of cannabis therefore remains primarily a generational phenomenon.<\/a><\/p>\n

If these figures, reflecting a real public health problem, may legitimately worry parents, they also show the non-tragic nature of these uses, most of them reversible. They suggest that cannabis use is a life-time risk that can impact young people’s schooling and social relationships, and in some cases become chronic addiction into adulthood. Putting these risks in perspective gives adults back their power to act and reinforces their role as educators, in a dual approach of reducing these risks and supporting the person.<\/p>\n

The choice of prevention<\/strong><\/h4>\n

How to best place the cursor between protection and autonomy, without leaving the adolescent alone in his search for pleasure, performance and social integration? How can one avoid entrusting the object with the power of calming, accentuating and enhancing the attractiveness of psychoactive substances? It is to these questions that we tried, Jean-Pierre Courteron, Aude Stehelin and myself, to answer with Adolescents and cannabis, what to do? (Couteron, Lascaux & Stehelin, 2017)<\/a>. In this book published in 2017, we have chosen to share the experiences and knowledge from our clinical practices<\/a> in Consultations Jeunes Consommateurs<\/a> and our academic work<\/a>, in connection with a European research program (INCANT<\/a>). Objective: to allow everyone to draw attitudes and strategies that he will adapt to the situations encountered, to better build his own know-how.<\/p>\n

Everyone agrees that we need to “keep the dialogue going and put a framework”. A very good advice but usually difficult to put into practice. Initiating a dialogue on “drugs”, still possibly taboo subject – and moreover when it comes to his own child – is a challenge! The psycho-educational approach adopted aims to help parents and adults to dive without fear, step by step, in the construction of a preventive education.<\/p>\n