Último Número: Volumen 12, Número 2

Concept of risk perception and impact on addictions

José A. García del Castillo
Instituto de Investigación de Drogodependencias (INID).
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche.

We can assume risk percepcion has been always considered in all prevention studies about both drug dependency and addictions as an important variable with a high impact within initiation and maintenance of consumption. In fact is considered risk perception could influence decision making of tasting a new substance or something liable to create addiction. Nevertheless theoretical conceptualization...
Analyses of factors that influence alcohol use among children: a prospective path analysis

Angelina Pilatti, Juan Carlos Godoy y Silvina Alejandra Brussino
Facultad de Psicología. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Córdoba, Argentina

The present study was aimed to analyze the impact of different risk factors and one protective factor on the frequency of alcohol consumption in children. In addition, it was sought to analyze the meditational role of alcohol expectancies in the relation between more distal factors and alcohol use. Finally, it was examined how initial use of alcohol affected initial alcohol expectancies. A...
Family, School and Sports (FEDE), three areas in the lives of students in the state of Jalisco, Mexico: analysis of the use of leisure time and the use or abuse of drugs

Jorge Alberto Godínez García1 y Gabriela Belén Gómez Torres2
1Researcher for theState Council Against Addictions in Jalisco (in Spanish: Consejo Estatal Contra lasAdicciones en Jalisco [CECAJ]), Mexico.
2Teacher at the Institute for Teaching Research and Education (in Spanish: Instituto Superior de Investigación y Docencia para el Magisterio) in Jalisco, Mexico.

The State Council Against Addictions in Jalisco offers a great opportunity to initiate interventions that contribute to the prevention of drug abuse. These strategies should be designed and planned in response to addictive behavior epidemiological phenomenon. To define this behavior has conducted a statistical analysis tool t-Student test of the data collected in the School Survey on Addictions...
The meaning of drug use in the speech of young Portuguese consumers

Mariana Bernardo1 y Maria Carmo Carvalho2
1Bolseira de investigação - Universidade do Minho, Braga
2Professora Assistente - Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto

The goal of this study is to understand the meanings that a youth sample associates to their drug consumption. The sampling process was conducted using a snowball sampling. The sample was composed by a group of 22 individuals aged between 20 and 34 years old, that have had or still have experience with some kind of drug. We used a qualitative method and a semi-structured interview following the...
Psichosocial addictions treatment based on matrix model in a public center: a pilot study

Jesús Martí Esquitino1, José Luis Carballo Crespo2, Inmaculada Cárceles Arnau3, Ana María García Ruíz3 y Rosa María Gómez Sánchez3.
1Fundación para la formación y la investigación sanitarias (FFIS).
2Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche.
3Centro de Atención a Drogodependencias de Murcia.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of USA recomends Matrix Model among other effective treatments on addiction to cocaine, however, there is no studies on the spanish public health system yet. The objective was to measure effectiveness of a psychosocial treatment based on Matrix Model, adapted to the murcian public health system on: quality of life, craving, reported and actual use,...