In her speech, ELKIN said; substance use disorder, which is a biopsychosocial problem; She stated that it is an extremely costly and devastating social disease that has significant negative effects on individual health, family life, community security and the economy. She said that the most appropriate programs that can help in solving the problem of substance use are prevention and early intervention programs, and in order for prevention programs to be successful, first of all, it is necessary to identify children and adolescents at risk, and to know which individual and environmental factors pose a risk or protective for substance use in adolescence. Substance abuse is not just a health issue, apart from health, public, social,
ELKİN, after her speech, she shared a short biography of Assoc. Dr. Aslı ENEZ DARÇIN and invited her to the podium to give her speech.
DARÇIN in her speech; The concept of addiction, the risk factors for addiction, the addiction cycle, the misconceptions about addiction, the definitions of dangerous and risky use and harmful use, which are important concepts in substance use disorder, and their differences from each other, who becomes addicted, the addiction process and the importance of protection, addictive substances, if addiction has developed, the treatment process and the difficulties of this process, the importance of motivation and family approach, and emphasized that addiction is a brain disease, a chronic disease and treatable.
The event ended when Deputy Dean Assistant Professor A. Yüksel BARUT presented the speaker with his plaque.
