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Young people and addictions: tips for quitting or helping a loved one
Addictive behaviors can be set up during youth, how to spot them and get out of them?
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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During youth, addictive behavior can set in (consumption of alcohol, tobacco, but also illicit products, such as cannabis or opiates).
During this same period conducive to experiments and initiation, adolescents and young adults are also confronted with the sometimes problematic use of social networks and screens.
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What signs should alert us to this vulnerability to addictive behavior?
What consequences on health?
How to quit or help someone close to quit?
Dr Idrissa Ba,
psychiatrist at
Fann University Hospital
.
Head of clinic assistant at the
Faculty of Medicine
of
the University Cheikh Anta Diop
of Dakar, addictologist and technical coordinator of
CEPIAD
(Centre for Integrated Support for Addictions of Dakar), president of the Senegalese Association for the Reduction of Risks to vulnerable groups (ASRDR)
Hadja Idrissa Bah,
student, member of
the NGO Equipop
and the
Network of Young Feminists of Francophone West Africa
.
Report by
Raphaëlle Constant.
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