Drug Abuse in Kazakhstan :: Drug Abuse, Substance Abuse

Today the problem of medicine make fun is the most serious and severe problem not only in Kazakhstan but throughout the world. The current problem is very acute in Kazakhstan. There are 49, 984 registered drug addicted people, and among them the amount of children is 3, 071 (Over 3 molarity drug addicted kids are registered in Kazakhstan, 2011). Drug addiction is considered a disease, and it is in fact spreads like a virus among children. The danger from drugs is alike great to ignore. Although the problem of drugs may seem impossible to avoid, we still place prevent this problem throughout society by taking any(prenominal) powerful and effective actions. People are supposed to help jejuneness drug ab enforcers kick the habit and abolish it as soon as possible in order to ensure the healthy growth of young and social stability. Today more than and more teenagers in Kazakhstan are victims of drug pace and government should take urgent actions to improve this situation by pro viding drug education program, making effective laws to stop drug dealers, and creating more medical centers. According to the poll conducted among Kazakh schoolchildren in 2006, 12 percent of petty(prenominal) pupils have used drugs once in their life, 2-5 percent of schoolchildren regularly use drugs. On the whole, the Kazakh teenagers use light drugs like marijuana. Only in the startle six months of 2007, 986 adolescents using drugs were registered versus 464 for the whole 2006. (Girfanov,2007). The first reason of the drug laugh at among teenagers might be changes in family circumstance. It can include parents lack of supervision. As Thompson (n.d.) states, lack of family supervision over the child can be a cause of his/her drug abuse, meaning that if parents do not have prim discipline, the child can be exposed to drug usage. Also, Singha (2010) states that if parents give children an chance to do whatever they desire especially in such captious teen age, it w ill result that teenagers will do whatever they want and will wrongly construct the personality. Another reason for drug abuse among teenagers is loneliness or depression. According to Singha (2010), such factors as pressings from the peers, family problems, education pressure and first-love relationships can encourage teenagers to start using drug. This phenomenon is self-explanatory, because in such unguarded age everything is perceived so sensitively.