During the adolescence the young form their own personality and individuality, and this is the period that the drugs make it selves more present. This study objective to develop a critical analysis on the necessity of educative actions in the prevention of the drug's consumption between adolescents and being verified the risk factors related to them. This is a reflective article in which we evidenced that the Second International Conference for the Health Promotion was pioneering when introducing the subject as priority in the elaboration of public politics. Studies associate social and economics factors, and practical familiar as risk factors for the alcohol consumption and other drugs. It was understood that is basic to help them in the experience of this transition's phase, detaching family and education as primordial in their formations as citizens, in the route to the health promotion.
Adolescence; Health Promotion; Nursing