OVISNOST - UZROK ILI POSLJEDICA NASILJA
CONTINUITY - FAILURE OR CONSEQUENCES OF VIOLENCE

Summary/Abstract: Wide spread and consuming of drugs and psychoactive substances among adolescents and youth is growing to an alarming point and is turning into a way to an addiction that has no fear of anything, even of violence. Besides that, the person – a male or a female addict – as seen through the eyes of Marjanovac Center, did not meet the eye with themselves, others and human values which are worth living for, they are also in danger of accepting the violence as a necessary cause – consequence factor for making their goals, seeing psychoactive substances as “help” in experiencing the act of violence and very often with consequences of violence with whom a person cannot deal by itself and cannot find enough strength to ask for adequate help from family and social institutions. The goal never justifies acts but when it comes to violence of the addicted population we are more common of judging and marginalizing then looking for the adequate solution and making it less damaging by giving them an opportunity for a change. Penalty systems which are used to lower the rate of violence are just one of the ways and are not always the most ideal solution for a young person. The responsibility of the whole community is in systematic approach and prevention of family violence, violence in schools, media and all other areas of acting. If we look at the definition of violence brought by The World Health Organization 2002., that it is intentional use of physical strength and power of threating or acting towards yourself, another person or towards a group of people, or the whole community, which could result or results with injury, death, psychological consequences or deprivation, it is clear that it concerns all kinds of violence from physical and / or emotional, sexual, economical or any other kind of violence that makes real or possible harm to another person or the whole community. From the experience by working with addicts in a drug rehabilitation Center Marjanovac it is visible that ones successfully resolved issues of addiction results with solving the violent behavior.

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