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مـــن شبـــاب لبـــنان يدخّنـــون %46


رشا أبي حيدر - «طلابنا في خطر، وضعهم محزن ويجب التحرّك»، هذا ما خلص إليه المشاركون في الجلسة الأولى من ندوة «المدرسة ودورها في تعزيز الوقاية من المخدرات». وقد استند الاستنتاج إلى مسحين صحيين قامت بهما وزارة التربية والتعليم العالي ومنظمة الصحة العالمية، بالتنسيق مع عدد من المنظمات الدولية.
وتناول المسحان السلوك الخطر على صحة الشباب وعناصر الحماية في لبنان، وشملا مجموعة من الشباب تتراوح أعمارهم بين 13 و15 عاماً، ضمن عيّنة من المدارس الرسمية والخاصة، توزّعت على المناطق اللبنانية. وتضمّنت الاستمارة أسئلة عن سلوكيات الشباب بهدف تحديد حالتهم بدقّة. واختيرت في المرحلة الأولى المدارس بشكل عشوائي، ثم اختيرت الصفوف بشكل عشوائي أيضاً.

فمن بين 100 مدرسة، وافقت 92 على المشاركة، وتوزعت بين 50 مدرسة رسمية و42 خاصة. وتخللت الاستمارة أسئلة عن المخدرات، الكحول، الصحة النفسية، العنف ومواقف تجاه الإنجاب والصحة الجنسية. وقد شارك 5115 طالباً في ملء الاستمارة، بينهم 52.3% من الإناث. فبالنسبة إلى المخدرات والكحول، تبين أنّ 20% من الطلاب الذين شملتهم العينة شربوا الكحول على الأقل مرة في الشهر، و3.5% تعاطوا المخدرات.

وعلى مستوى الصحة النفسية، شعر 12% بالوحدة، فيما عانى 13.7% من القلق ولم يستطيعوا النوم، ولم يستطع 12.5% التركيز في دروسهم، وعانى 37.5% من الكآبة، وحاول 16% الانتحار، في حين خطرت فكرة الانتحار على بال 11.1%.
أما على صعيد العنف، فقد تعرض 17.3% للتحرّش الجنسي، والباقون تعرضوا للضرب. وشكا 38% من غياب دور العائلة في التربية، و39% عانوا عدم فهم الأهل مشاكلهم.

وفيما تبقى حالة لبنان الأفضل مقارنة مع باقي الدول العربية على صعيد كل هذه المشكلات، «فوضعنا أضرب شي بالنسبة لتدخين السيكارة والأركيلة»، فقد بلغت النسبة 46%، كما قالت الاختصاصية في التربية الصحية ريما عفيفي التي عرضت الدراسة خلال الجلسة. من جهته، شرح وديع معلوف من مكتب الأمم المتحدة المعني بالمخدرات والجريمة واقع تعاطي المخدرات في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا عامة، وفي لبنان تحديداً، فأشار إلى ارتفاع نسبة تعاطي المخدرات في لبنان مقابل انخفاض في الفئة العمرية، حيث إن النسبة الأكبر التي تتعاطى المخدرات هي في صفوف الطلاب الجامعيين والثانويين. وتشير الدراسات الإحصائية بين عامي 2003 و 2006 إلى أنّ الكوكايين يحتل المرتبة الأولى من بين المخدرات.

وكانت الندوة استهدفت بشكل أساسي أصحاب القرار في القطاع التعليمي الرسمي والخاص، أي مديري المدارس والجمعيات الناشطة بهدف زيادة الوعي بشأن أهمية الوقاية من المخدرات، وتحفيزهم لإدراج البرامج المتعلقة بها ضمن أنشطة مؤسساتهم. وشارك في اللقاء خبراء واختصاصيون من لبنان وفرنسا وسويسرا والمملكة المتحدة، لعرض دراسات بشأن السلوكيات الخطرة لدى الشباب. وسعى المحاضرون إلى تسليط الضوء على العلاقة بين التربية في المدرسة والوقاية من المخدرات، وعرضت بعض المقاربات الوقائية التي يمكن تنفيذها في المدارس.

وتختتم الندوة التي تنظمها مؤسسة مينتور العربية وتجمّع أم النور، برعاية وزارتي التربية والشؤون الاجتماعية، اليوم في فندق هوليداي إن فردان.


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I find this most worrying. 46% of our students are smokers! It has become a fashionable trend to smoke cigarettes and even worse Arguileh.

What can be done to tackle this serious problem? Shouldn't cigarettes be highly taxed, just like Australia for example? The same packet that costs $1 in Lebanon costs $10 here. Also, every packet comes with a visual warning of the dangers of smoking. Really visual, like this:



What is the role of the parents? How can a smoking parent set any example to the son or daughter?

Other issues that appear in this study: 37% are depressed, 27% have either attempted suicide or have thought of it, 17% have been sexually abused, 20% consume alcohol and 4% take drugs! Hello anyone there?
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Nope, nobody is listening, there are other issues to keep the Lebanese listening at the moment.....
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Absent + unattentive + careless parents = Troubled + lost + helpless kids. Simple equation.
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Absent + unattentive + careless parents = Troubled + lost + helpless kids. Simple equation.
What is the Government's responsibility here and more specifically the Ministry of Social Affairs?
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What is the Government's responsibility here and more specifically the Ministry of Social Affairs?
The least they can do is try and raise awarness and provide counselling and help for those in need. The ministry of education also has a role to play and has been trying to do something due to freaky statistics on how many of this and that we have.

You already know what I'd have to say on the role of the government when it comes to social issues. Start with life sentences for drug dealers for example :D. Just slam it with a heavy tool w khallesna. Drugs are like popcorn these days. The problem is that even if we have laws, you can get away with anything. Laws and restrictions should be implemented and acted upon to set barriers, then problems can be tackled more easily. When you have no chains, you run wild especially at a young age. Things can seriously get crooked.
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The least they can do is try and raise awarness and provide counselling and help for those in need. The ministry of education also has a role to play and has been trying to do something due to freaky statistics on how many of this and that we have.

You already know what I'd have to say on the role of the government when it comes to social issues. Start with life sentences for drug dealers for example :D. Just slam it with a heavy tool w khallesna. Drugs are like popcorn these days. The problem is that even if we have laws, you can get away with anything. Laws and restrictions should be implemented and acted upon to set barriers, then problems can be tackled more easily. When you have no chains, you run wild especially at a young age. Things can seriously get crooked.
How can a judge or security officials implement the laws if they are the drug dealers themselves? I've got a small story to share here. In high school in Lebanon, I was offered by a small web of students to smuggle drugs into the school for $10,000 a month. These students, who were sons of well-known politicians and influential businessmen in Lebanon, were later caught, but to everyone's surprise the whole issue was dumped and the students were just suspended from school.

Corruption has its roots deep into our culture and mentality. It has become increasingly difficult to fight it.
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How can a judge or security officials implement the laws if they are the drug dealers themselves? I've got a small story to share here. In high school in Lebanon, I was offered by a small web of students to smuggle drugs into the school for $10,000 a month. These students, who were sons of well-known politicians and influential businessmen in Lebanon, were later caught, but to everyone's surprise the whole issue was dumped and the students were just suspended from school.

Corruption has its roots deep into our culture and mentality. It has become increasingly difficult to fight it.
Yeah, you're right. Tabibon yudawe lnas wa huwa 3alil... How do you deal with it, i have no idea. I guess we have to wait till things change... Hope they do...
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I was leaving Virgin Megastore DT the other day and saw a bunch of kids hanging out, sitting on the streets and smoking.

The scene was so appalling that I had to stop and ask how old they were. The kid told me that he was 9 years old.
I was shocked! Then my normal response was "Where is your mother?"
And his response was "Ma khassik fiyye"

That shows you how rude the children have become, and again, where the hell are their parents??? How is this kid buying cigarettes @ 9 years old? Where did he get the money? Who sold it to them?
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Absent + unattentive + careless parents = Troubled + lost + helpless kids. Simple equation.
That is a very simplistic view on the issue which does not stand a chance in real life.

There are kids out there who have wonderful parents yet you see them meddling in drugs.... I know of many.

The real problem is much deeper than this, it has a lot to do with our generations search for instant gratification, and our love of individualism, add to that high unemplyment, lack of oppurtunity, disdain with the world they live in and you start getting the picture.
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smoking is a very bad habbit indeed, everymore smoker should abstain from it as of now
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