Employees of Scientific centre of children health under the Russian Ministry of public health have found that students who have bad habits, worsening memory and attention. It turned out that the experience of Smoking and alcohol consumption have 8.2% of fifth graders, 11.8% of students and 15.5% of seventh graders, write "Izvestia".

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Employees of Scientific centre of children health under the Russian Ministry of public health have found that students who have bad habits, worsening memory and attention. It turned out that the experience of Smoking and alcohol consumption have 8.2% of fifth graders, 11.8% of students and 15.5% of seventh graders, write "Izvestia".

the study was attended by about 700 pupils of Moscow schools and their parents. Parents had to answer whether their child is to say the following: "tried Smoking", "drinking beer a few times", "several times used the wine", "several times used vodka", "sniffing glue or the like", "there was a suspicion of drug use".

the Boys, the researchers found, are more likely to suffer from bad habits. The volume of memory in non-drinking and non-Smoking children was 1.4 times higher than that of those who joined the use of alcohol and also smokes. Integral indicator of concentration in adolescents with no bad habits higher than that of those who have such habits.

adolescents with addictions were worse than performance in the communicative sphere, a stress voltage, in the field of emotional well-being, etc. Scientists note that "there were negative interaction": the formation of bad habits affect adaptation at school, and Vice versa.

Doctors ask the question: what comes first — the child's problem, which he tries to adapt, or that he uses psychoactive substances and because of this he is deteriorating memory and other social issues. the "I am deeply convinced that it is primary problem" — said the Director of the Institute of narcological health of the nation Oleg Zykov. Psychologist Alina Ponomareva, in turn, notes that the emergence of bad habits in a child does not depend on the material situation of his family.