DRUG USE AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE: An INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

The consumption drug is becoming more and more common among adolescentes who attend
educational institutions and end up hurting school performance. Simultaneously, accentuating the
devaluation of education. Objective: To verify the correlation between adolescent students who use
psychoactive substances and the decline in school performance through an integrative review.
Methodology: Qualitative descriptive study on the consumption of psychoactive substances by
adolescents and school performance carried out through an integrative review of the scientific
literature. As a source of information, articles indexed in databases such as the Virtual Health
Library (VHL), Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo) and PubMED, from the last 10 years
were included. The descriptors “Use of alcohol and other drugs” were used, “Drug use”, “School
performance” and “Teenagers”. Results: Of the total of twelve articles retrieved, four were selected
for the present study because they present data about the consumption of psychoactive drugs and
school performance. According to the analysis performed, it was possible to perceive the
association between the low school performance of adolescents who use some type of
psychoactive substance. Conclusions: It points out the indispensability of educational and
preventive practices to the use of drugs in the school environment, as well as the network
assistance, contacted by the school, in cases of situation of use is already in effect. Thus, it is
necessary to reinforce existing public measures and actions, in order to mitigate the disastrous
biases that induce adolescents to drug addiction.