Modern youth’ attitude to drugs and drug-addicts and their value orientations

The problem of drug use by youth still remains urgent for contemporary Russia. The ways of presenting unsorted information concerning drug addiction used to prevent youth drug addiction cause young people’s contradictory comprehension of drug addiction. Strong negative emotional attitude to drug addicts frequently goes along with interest in drug use. To make up effective prevention programmes it’s necessary to study modern Russian young people’s vision of drugs and drug use.