Новиков Ж.Ж

This article analyzes the influence of immediate social environment repre-sentatives – friends, acquaintances – on the flowing of narcotization among ado-lescents. The findings presented in the article based on the results of sociological research conducted in 2015 among students in the Khabarovsk city at the age of 14 – 18 years. Various aspects of the friends and acquaintances influence on the process of narcotization were empirically measured and considered, was found a significant negative role at the stage of interest formation to drugs and treatment for them. It is proved that one of the key factors stimulating the process and in-crease the level of narcotization is the presence in the near social environment of friends and acquaintances. They usually include in drug consumers environment and illegal drug trafficking, and actively promote drug culture’s norms and values among coevals, stimulate interest in drugs, offer them a try.

This article consider evaluation of drug prevention and non-medical drug use, that based on the results of sociological research, conducted in the framework of monitoring the drug situation in the Khabarovsk territory, as well as a poll or-phans of the Khabarovsk territory. The research results conducted from 2012 year show consistently low assessment of the efficacy of the drug abuse prevention work, as well as a low level of trust in the "official" counter-drugs propaganda, according to adolescents and young adults. Comparative analysis of the orphans’ survey brings out higher evaluation of the prevention effectiveness and the trust level. Detected trends show the evidence of the tradition prevention methods only under specific conditions in relative to closed institutions. This fact emphasize the necessity of introduction into practice the forms and methods of educational work that focused on personality’s socialization.

The article is devoted to the questions of prevention of the drug addiction and non-medical drug usage among the schoolchildren and students of the Khabarovsk territory. The analysis of results of the public opinion poll, realized in 2012, devoted to this thematic is also given.