THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS AMONG ALGERIAN FAMILIES REGARDING THE PHENOMENON OF DIGITAL DRUGS AND THEIR DANGERS (A FIELD STUDY ON A SAMPLE OF PARENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL

Abstract

    The Algerian families are facing a new scourge that is more deadly than traditional drugs, which is the digital drugs, Specialists and experts in the fields of technology, medicine, law and religion agreed on the severity of its danger and the ease of falling into it, Due to the ease of obtaining it through various channels of the media and the Internet at low or free costs, where the abuser or the hypothetical consumer appears to have convulsions and unusual movements of the body in silence, inside closed rooms and sometimes a few meters away from the parents’ view.

Accordingly, the current study mainly aims to explore and find out the level of awareness of digital drugs and their risks among a sample of parents. To achieve this goal, the descriptive approach was followed. Using the questionnaire and distributing it to a sample of 105 parents of students in secondary schools affiliated to the Directorate of Education in Algiers for the academic year 2022-2023, the results showed that the average total degree of awareness of the phenomenon of digital drugs in the Algerian family and its risks is low. The results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences between fathers and mothers regarding the degree of awareness, as well as the absence of differences according to the educational level. According to these results, some recommendations were proposed.