A influência do ambiente universitário no consumo de drogas entre jovens: uma revisão a partir do viés da análise do comportamento

Abstract

The present essay seeks to analyze how the entry of an individual into the university environment is related to the use and abuse of psychoactive substances. In order to understand the existence of control variables present in universities, a literature review was carried out on the topic “Academic environment and drug use”. Such information was analyzed from the perspective of Behavior Analysis, in order to apprehend the contingencies that are part of these students' lives. It was identified that substance use behavior is crossed by multiple factors, the main ones being the escape from stressors arising from the transition between school and college, curiosity about drugs, search for fun and the need to feel accepted by the social group. That said, we conclude that the management of such behavior must be based on policies and strategies that aim at self-care and the subject's protagonism in this change, since punitive measures do not change the so-called problematic behavior, they only deprive the subject of their natural reinforcements