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ghasemzadeh D. (2025). Analyzing the reasons for students' substance use from the perspective of experts. refahj. 25(97), : 6 doi:10.32598/refahj.25.97.681.5
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Keywords: substance abuse, social structure, fragility of the family institution, public sphere isolation, neglect of education.
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Introduction
One of the issues that has always occupied the minds of policymakers, families and researchers in the field of social sciences is drug abuse. When this issue occurs in the educational institution and among students, the need to address the issue becomes even more important. Therefore, the aim of the current research is the Social construction of drug abuse among high school students in Tabriz.
Method
The current research was conducted with a qualitative approach and the Grounded theory. In this research, using a targeted sampling method, 35 key informants including (five sociological faculty, five psychology faculty, three school principals, five school counselors, two senior experts of Naja Prevention Deputy and five senior experts of the anti-narcotics headquarters (prevention police), three people from non-governmental organizations active in prevention in the province, four teachers, three students) were interviewed. The criterion of data saturation was used in the sampling of the participants and the duration of each interview was 50-60 minutes. The information obtained from the interviews have been analyzed using the Strauss and Corbin method. For this reason, the text of the interviews was checked line by line and after revision, the data were coded in an open, central and selective coding. Methods such as transferability and member control have been used to ensure the accuracy of the data. to increase the transferability criterion, it was tried to introduce the research plan in full. In a sense, before the start of the interview, the interviewees were informed about the purpose of the research and expressed their satisfaction with the recording of their statements. In this research, the member control method is also used. For this purpose, data, analysis and interpretations of the statements of the interviewees were given to some of the participants so that they could comment on the accuracy and reliability of the interpretations.
Findings
The categories extracted from the interviews of the participants of this research indicate that the fragility of the family institution, Unsafe family environment, Deficits in life skills and Freedom from the routine of life as causal conditions, the focus of the public sphere, despair about the future and the feeling of social inequality as interventional conditions. neglect of education in family and school, cultural poverty, incomplete socialization and changes in values are the field conditions in drug abuse among students. student ecology-based prevention, student-participatory prevention, and attention to dynamic leisure considered strategies to deal with drug abuse. In this research, after coding the interview findings with the participants, “ Misuse of Drugs: A Response to Unstable Conditions” was revealed as the central category. In this era, more than in other eras, we are witnessing the emergence of social harms at micro and macro levels, in such a way that many experts use the term “rainbow of all kinds of narcotics and psychoactive pills” in connection with the problem of addiction. This means that the drug supply and production system works intelligently and dynamically, and therefore preventive policies and plans must be designed intelligently and dynamically and following the requirements of the time. What can be inferred from the essence of the participants’ statements is that drug use acts as a reaction to the social and cultural conditions of society.
Discussion
According to the words of the participants of this research, it can be said that the prevention of drug abuse should be consistent with the cultural and social contexts of the students’ living areas. Preventive plans should be situation-oriented and based on the participation of students in these plans. Contributors In their statement, the participants mentioned the consequences of the strategies, which are classified in the main category of flourishing capacities in society. From the meaning of the participants of this research, it was understood that in the case of correct and calculated preventive activities, favorable results will occur for the students and the school.
Ethical considerations
Funding
This research was supported by the Research Office of the General Department of Education of East Azarbaijan Province under the title “ A Study of the Causes and Contexts of substance abuse among secondary school students in Tabriz City and its prevention strategies”.
Conflicts of interest
The author declared no conflict of interest.
Following the ethics of research
In this research, all rights relating to participants are cited and resources are carefully Listed.
Introduction
One of the issues that has always occupied the minds of policymakers, families and researchers in the field of social sciences is drug abuse. When this issue occurs in the educational institution and among students, the need to address the issue becomes even more important. Therefore, the aim of the current research is the Social construction of drug abuse among high school students in Tabriz.
Method
The current research was conducted with a qualitative approach and the Grounded theory. In this research, using a targeted sampling method, 35 key informants including (five sociological faculty, five psychology faculty, three school principals, five school counselors, two senior experts of Naja Prevention Deputy and five senior experts of the anti-narcotics headquarters (prevention police), three people from non-governmental organizations active in prevention in the province, four teachers, three students) were interviewed. The criterion of data saturation was used in the sampling of the participants and the duration of each interview was 50-60 minutes. The information obtained from the interviews have been analyzed using the Strauss and Corbin method. For this reason, the text of the interviews was checked line by line and after revision, the data were coded in an open, central and selective coding. Methods such as transferability and member control have been used to ensure the accuracy of the data. to increase the transferability criterion, it was tried to introduce the research plan in full. In a sense, before the start of the interview, the interviewees were informed about the purpose of the research and expressed their satisfaction with the recording of their statements. In this research, the member control method is also used. For this purpose, data, analysis and interpretations of the statements of the interviewees were given to some of the participants so that they could comment on the accuracy and reliability of the interpretations.
Findings
The categories extracted from the interviews of the participants of this research indicate that the fragility of the family institution, Unsafe family environment, Deficits in life skills and Freedom from the routine of life as causal conditions, the focus of the public sphere, despair about the future and the feeling of social inequality as interventional conditions. neglect of education in family and school, cultural poverty, incomplete socialization and changes in values are the field conditions in drug abuse among students. student ecology-based prevention, student-participatory prevention, and attention to dynamic leisure considered strategies to deal with drug abuse. In this research, after coding the interview findings with the participants, “ Misuse of Drugs: A Response to Unstable Conditions” was revealed as the central category. In this era, more than in other eras, we are witnessing the emergence of social harms at micro and macro levels, in such a way that many experts use the term “rainbow of all kinds of narcotics and psychoactive pills” in connection with the problem of addiction. This means that the drug supply and production system works intelligently and dynamically, and therefore preventive policies and plans must be designed intelligently and dynamically and following the requirements of the time. What can be inferred from the essence of the participants’ statements is that drug use acts as a reaction to the social and cultural conditions of society.
Discussion
According to the words of the participants of this research, it can be said that the prevention of drug abuse should be consistent with the cultural and social contexts of the students’ living areas. Preventive plans should be situation-oriented and based on the participation of students in these plans. Contributors In their statement, the participants mentioned the consequences of the strategies, which are classified in the main category of flourishing capacities in society. From the meaning of the participants of this research, it was understood that in the case of correct and calculated preventive activities, favorable results will occur for the students and the school.
Ethical considerations
Funding
This research was supported by the Research Office of the General Department of Education of East Azarbaijan Province under the title “ A Study of the Causes and Contexts of substance abuse among secondary school students in Tabriz City and its prevention strategies”.
Conflicts of interest
The author declared no conflict of interest.
Following the ethics of research
In this research, all rights relating to participants are cited and resources are carefully Listed.
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Received: 2024/04/6 | Accepted: 2025/02/2 | Published: 2025/07/6
Received: 2024/04/6 | Accepted: 2025/02/2 | Published: 2025/07/6
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