Consumption of licit and illicit drugs by university students

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Christian Barbosa de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Veloso, Thiago Casanova Pereira, Segundo, Lenoilson Passos da Silva, Sousa, Filipe Pereira Gonçalo de, Galvão, Brenda Sussuarana, Paixão, Phelipe Augusto Rabelo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/3016
• topic: Drogas ilícitas. Universidad. Salud pública.; Drogas ilícitas. Universitários. Saúde Pública.; Illicit drugs. College students. Public health.

This study aims to analyze the consumption of licit and illicit drugs by university students. It is an integrative review, using 12 articles available in the following databases: Scielo, Pubmed and Lilacs. The inclusion criteria were: research that addressed the theme, published in English, Portuguese or Spanish in the form of articles, theses and dissertations in the period from 2012 to 2019. As exclusion criteria: papers that did not present full abstracts in the databases and was not of a scientific nature. In all the analyzed studies, it was verified that the university students mostly use drugs, and that most reported alcohol and tobacco consumption, but also observed the consumption of several illicit drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, among others. It is suggested that there is an incentive to the development of public policies aimed at this public, which diminished the vulnerability of these students. Considering that the consumption of these substances can damage your health and cause other problems during adulthood.