[Evaluation of the knowledge of rural high school students in Yazd about drugs]

ABSTRACT

Considering high prevalence of addiction, the age range of drug abuse and availability of new synthetic drugs, evaluation of knowledge of adolescents about drugs would be a priority in research. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 517 rural high school students were asked to complete a questionnaire and through SPSS software version 13, collected data was analyzed by chi-square and analysis of variance tests. 7.1% of rural families with at least one boy in high school had an addict family member. 70.2% of high school students had had a contact with an addict and 42.5% knew an adolescent addict. Also, 17.5% had been offered drugs and 37.9% of high school students claimed that there was at least one addict in their family or relations. Considering the frequency of addiction in families and rate of invitation to drug abuse in students, there is a high risk of increment of addiction in high schools and therefore real and urgent need to do an intervention