Uso de substâncias psicoativas lícitas entre estudantes de ensino superior: fatores etiológicos e consequências

Abstract

Considering that the progression of the use of psychoactive substances can lead to significant complications in different areas of life, research is carried out on the use of licit psychoactive substances among university students, in order to analyze how admission to higher education institutions could influence the use/abuse of licit psychoactive substances by university students and its impact on academic perfor- mance. Therefore, it is necessary to point out the main legal psychoactive substan- ces used by university students in the municipality of Balsas-MA, identify the preva- lence of the use of legal psychoactive substances by university students in the muni- cipality of Balsas-MA and the motivations for their consumption. and to verify the in- terference of licit psychoactive substances in the performance of academic activities. Therefore, a descriptive research with a quantitative-qualitative approach is carried out. In view of this, it appears that alcohol is the main substance consumed, the main motivations that drive the consumption of psychoactive substances by university stu- dents are pressure from the academic environment, leisure, habit, relaxation, curio- sity or medical indication and that when consuming psychotropic drugs, young peo- ple are susceptible to risk behaviors that directly and indirectly reflect on students' performance in activities related to graduation, which imposes the observation that the experience of a new experience in academic life associated with the greater free- dom acquired increases vulnerability to the consumption of psychoactive substances, and that the search for increased self-confidence and sociability in association with psychoactive drugs induces risky behaviors that reflect on satisfactory performance within the graduation.