title: [Apropos of drug addicts. Challenges of participation and education for public health].
abstract: Community participation to improve the health of the population and to control disease is nowadays strongly recommended by the World Health Organization. How should such participation be implemented? Certain important conditions for its implementation have been underrated. Among them, self confidence is of great importance. Experts are sometimes too specialized and cannot grasp the various implications of certain activities. In health education the need to maintain and reinforce the self-esteem of those concerned has been repeatedly stressed recently. When one deals with drug addicts the difficulty of obtaining their participation is compounded. Many drug addicts often claim that they are bored, that the life they lead is dull. The author indicates that he has no miraculous recipe to offer but he believes it is extremely important that drug addicts be helped to recover their self-esteem since most of them have lost confidence in themselves, a factor which explains failures.
mesh_terms: D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk; D012649:Self Concept; D012922:Social Change; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D014944:World Health Organization
vernacular_title: A propos des toxicomanes. Défis de la participation et de l'education pour la santé.