To provide students with an overview of protective and risk factors related to addiction in biological, personal, social and local contexts, and preventive studies and intervention programs that can be done in schools.

Basic concepts and definitions; types of addiction (substance addiction, technology addiction, etc.); causes of addiction; the risk factors in the family, peer group and social context that prepare the person for the substance addiction process; communication skills in dependent children, adolescents and adults; the role of social work in addiction; addiction related models; efforts to prevent addiction; consequences of addiction; national policy and strategy methods in combating addiction; reintegration process.