129 Received: 12. UDK:343.9 REVIEW INFORMAL AND FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE DOMAIN OF THE CENTRE FOR DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION Ksenija Butorac Andreja Rogar Zagreb City Centre for drug abuse prevention SUMMARY Any form of psychosocial and psychosomatic health impairment and antisocial behavior has to be interpreted as an individual way of coping with life stress in adolescence. Therefore, inter- vention measures have to take directly into account the psychosocialfunctions that drug abuse, delinquent behavior, and the building up of psychosomatic symptoms possess for adolescents. It is no use developing highly specialized >intenention technologies<. We can only provide sup- port and help that is politically, psychologically, pedagogically, and socially effective, if we consider the whole lifu situation of adolescence. Building up measures such as advisory serv- ices, treatment, and therapy on the single symptoms within the psychosocial and psychosomatic domain is necessary-, but we must not spend all our energy on this >curing of symptoms<. We have to concentrate on the real starting positions for the appearance of the symptoms, which have complex structural origins. In the face of the many facets of this problem, we need a combi- nation and coordination of the activities provided in family and youth work, schools and youth advisory services, public health departments and hospitals, welfare ffices and employment agencies, combined with the setting up of accessible institutions to which parents and adoles- cents can turn to for advice in their neighborhood. The prevention should include the wide concept of education. Forming the negative attitude to- wards the drugs should be the part of the process of socialization ofyoung people. This presup' poses the education of educators. On the basis of the above, it appears to be obvious that in order to fight the drug abuse the domi- nant factor is the fight against the social problems which are more complex and numerous than the drug consumption itself. We have to change attitudes, value systems and provide the social and commercial conditions. This means that the education is to play primary role in treating and preventing the drug abuse. Young people are to be the focus of the social care, not the ob- ject of the social help. If we are to lower the problem of drug abuse, we have to activate all the social protection mechanism-educational, social and repressive (apart from using measures of rehabilitation, education and integration into the society). Key words: social control, drug abuse, prevention the human life course since the second half of the last century. The "emergence<< of the phase of ado- lescence was closely linked to economic, political, and cultural changes evoked by the industrializa- tion process and the accompanying of a compul- sory school system (Gillis, 1974). The decision regarding which position in the social structure a 1. THE SOCIAL WORLD OF ADOLESCENTS Adolescence as a phase of the human life course is an historically shaped social >>product<< that is in state of constant change. Adolescence can be identified as a specific and independent phase of