Social anxiety and drug use in adolescents

Abstract

In order to understand as deeply as possible the evolution of contemporary society, we can not limit ourselves to researching each social phenomenon, but it is necessary to study their correlation, being well known that the social functions as a system of elements that act synergistically and potentiate each other, whose social phenomena are totally different from the sum of the isolated functioning of each element. Although we often think that substance abuse by adolescents is an externalized disorder, the latest research indicates that abuse can also accompany internalized disorders. It is easier to become aware of drug abuse problems when they are present in adolescents or adults with antisocial behavior (e.g., a noisy group of drunken young offenders) than in the context of internalized problems (e.g., a depressed adolescent drinking from alone every night to be able to fall asleep). Because drug abuse problems are often secondary to other co-morbid phenomena, internalized or externalized problems, their initial treatment separately from the latter is indicated.

Usually, young people suffer from both internalized and externalized problems at the same time (for example, the delinquency of a depressed young person). Many depressed or anxious teenagers, as well as young offenders, have problems with drug abuse, especially alcohol. Many researchers consider it very important to distinguish between people living with a single specific problem, without the presence of a secondary one (for example, a depressed teenager who has no other internalized or outsourced problem), people who go through more than one problem in the same category. for example, young aggressive or depressed offenders and anxious at the same time) and people who experience both internalized and externalized problems (for example, depressed offenders). These people followed different paths of treatment. In general, studies show that people with multiple problems had much more negative family experiences than those with a single problem.