Social policy implementations on drug-using children and youth as of 2000 in Turkey

The subject of this study involves the social policy implementations regarding the use of psychoactive substances formated in Turkey in the early 2000s. Especially the adaptation process to the European Union, national and international factors affect the shaping of institutional structures. In the historical process, global changes are taking place in struggle policies as well as in application areas. In this vein, it is aimed to inquire the effects of national policies applied to children and youth using drugs and the adaptation to the new methods of struggles. In the present study, the concepts of "child", "adolescent", "social policy", "drug" and "dependence" were addressed which are respectively subject to different approaches and alterations. The need for expression by using the word "substance" instead of using the word "depressant" which is allegedly in misuse was emphasized and information about classifications, types, the effects on the central nervous system of drugs and addiction was studied. As a global concern, by obtaining the rates of, substance use, dependence, crimes and deaths that are relevant to substance use in different parameters from the national and international relevant institutions' statistics and reports, data on present drug use and dependence were reached on global, regional and national means. The developed fight policies have been researched in an update and some samples of different countries are given. In that vein, by taking the policies of Turkey relevant to the subject, positive and negative aspects were emphasized, suggestions were included in the opportunity to compare with outland