Social environment as a factor of narcotization of young people (on the example of the Khabarovsk city)

Abstract

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.