Psychosocial factors and the consumption of ethnobotanical plants in adolescents

Abstract

We live in a dynamic society, in which social problems do not cease to arise. The drug problem in Romania became more and more acute after 1990, reason for which the society laid the foundations of numerous programs for the prevention of this phenomenon (only in 2009 1 national project and 67 at local level were carried out in the school environment), however the drug problem is topical. Unfortunately for the individual and society, a new social scourge appeared a few years ago, ethnobotanical substances, at the beginning of 2008 the first articles about the so-called "dream shops" appeared. The most painful is that it has allowed the appearance and, worse, the development of this phenomenon. Although included in the category of legal drugs, like any other drug, ethnobotanicals are addictive. Ethnobotanical substances are found in various plant mixtures, which if ingested or inhaled produce manifestations similar to those of abusive substances. These plants and substances directly influence the human brain through confusing states, loss of identity, decreased attention span, hallucinations, being accompanied by side effects: severe headaches, dizziness, anxiety, confusion and severe panic attacks, increased heart rate, blood pressure and of body temperature.