Evaluation of behavioral risk factors associated with drug abuse and various forms of sexual behavior of teenagers in a big city

Abstract

The paper considers the incidence of smoking, alcohol abuse, destructive sexual behaviour among teenage high school students of the central and industrial districts of the city. It is shown that destructive forms of behaviour are common among teenagers. The study revealed higher rates of injectable drug-taking, smoking, alcohol-taking, sexual contacts among young people of industrial districts. These teenagers begin sexual life and drug-taking at an earlier age; they engage in unsafe sex more often. The incidence of negative behaviour forms is higher in girls than in boys.