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FUENTES AGUILAR, Elías. Prevalence of drug use in Senior Medical Students and their academic impact. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.13, pp.423-434. ISSN 2007-7467.

Drug use in schools has been increasing; this problem has already been noted at the high school level, but at Higher Education level not enough studies have been conducted.

For this study, a survey was applied to 108 students in the last semester of medicine of the Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Milpa Alta Unit of the National Polytechnic Institute, IPN.

The results are as follows: 40 students (37%) are male and 68 (63%) of the female sex, total 97 students consume alcohol (89.8%), of which 58 are women and 39 men. With regard to the consumption of tobacco, 52 consumed tobacco (48%), 27 are women and 25 men. As for the use of other drugs, 16 students (14%) admitted that they have tried them (always in Parties), of which 8 are men and 8 are women, while the 16 remaining students have only tried marijuana.

On the other hand, 15 students accepted have a problem due to the consumption of any drug, being the most often the school; among these students, 3 lowered its average and 2 considered that the consumption of drugs makes them wasted too much time.

Drug prevention campaigns should be conducted also on Higher Education level students and not only on middle level students.

Palavras-chave : drug use; students; alcohol.

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