This habit learned (and not innate) aims to overcome the difficulties of life and lack of satisfaction at the individual, through a narrowing of the latter’s capacity to cope with the events of his life and acquire, otherwise than by the psychoactive, a real pleasure.

The use of psychotropic effect, a selective reinforcement and simultaneously, to eliminate some unpleasant experiences (eg, the chicanery of household as I drown in alcohol) and amplify those are nice (well – be felt by alcohol). Thus the individual is subjected to the experience that makes him live psychotropics. That’s the concept of addiction.

This theory is very important in that it shows that the abuses associated with the consumption of alcohol or drugs does not fall from heaven as could be disease, but is rather the result of a process, the ‘culmination of attitudes that are a function of personality, motivations, past experiences and social and cultural environment of the consumer.

The psychosocial theory of addiction attributed the source of the problem of addiction, not the chemical properties of psychotropic drugs, but the meanings attributed to them by the individual and society in general. This could explain the difference felt by the consumer adult smoking, with a few friends, a joint of marijuana in the quiet of his home, and felt by the youth, who consumes, in secret and with his friends, same quantity of marijuana. The experience this teen will be very different from that experienced by the adult.

The misuse of psychotropic drugs is the result of a process, the result of attitudes that are a function of personality, motivations, past experiences and social and cultural environment of the consumer. We have defined as the process of addiction. But what could be factors that predispose to addiction?

To illustrate this concept, look at the behavior of a youth mental health and adolescent prone to problematic use. In terms of personal characteristics, the former relative confidence, that is to say he has the feeling of being able to cope with difficulties. He also relatively self-esteem. The second lack of confidence in him and he has low self-esteem ( “Am not able, have no class,” he says).

What are their attitudes towards life? The first feels responsible for his life, he strives for change and the exercise of freedom, and wanting to be master of its decisions. He is enterprising. The second is unable to tolerate the angst. It tends to abdicate, not to deal with the events he is afraid of change. He had some apprehensions before its release. It has a passive attitude towards life, which translates into a refusal of effort and investment staff, then leading into a cul-de-sac: an ideal self-image impossible.

Given the problems inherent in life, both groups will feel the anguish and pain. However, their solutions are different in that the adolescent mental health will act as susceptible to the adolescent consumer issues go away, often in alcohol, psychotropic drugs, etc. …

Consequently, the result obtained by the first will be a resolution of the problem and learning, avoiding the adoption of outlets, while the second will remove the anxiety temporarily by the use of psychotropic and increase his sense of failure face its ability to solve its problems.