Viera BAW, Romero HMK, Hernández RCV, González MR, Sarracent SA, Rodríguez JR, Amador MJ

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ABSTRACT

Drug dependence consequences are related to a wide spectrum of social, psychic and biologic damages. Consumer relatives and other persons such as co workers, friends or people without any link with consumers also suffer the negative consequences of the addiction. That is the reason to do this study taking into consideration the familiar psychiatric pathological background and other consumer’s family factor risk. Our research is a transversal, descriptive study of marijuana consumers. It is formed by 83 male patients and their relatives that fulfill the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Specified instruments and validated structured questionnaires were applied. The selected variables were: pathologic backgrounds on relatives, alive or deceased parents, death of parents and divorce of the parents, as well as the moment that took place the divorce of the parents, academic level and religion practiced by both parents. Alcoholism on relative resulted major. The major psychiatric background was psychosis. The fourth part of the patients have one of their parent deceased, the two third part of the patients have divorced parents and the moment that parents’ divorced took placed was almost in the third forth part of the patients before patients had 15 years old. Three of each five parents had secondary level. The proportion of mothers that have university studies was greater than the one of the fathers showed a significant proportion of secondary level. The religion more practiced by almost the half of the parents was Afrocuban religion.