Despite sound information and numerous campaigns, drinking, smoking and drugs fascinate many young people. This can be, understood in the context of adolescent psychology. The addiction may represent an initiation path into the adult world, because it breaks taboos and allows excessive experiences. It is important from the side of the adults to take a counter stance to the positions of adolescents. In this way the adolescents can notice attention paid by the adults. Moreover, to take problems of addiction as mutual challenge for both adolescents and adults can bring forth the reductions of symbolic meaning of the addiction for the adolescence.

Key words: addiction, adolescence, adulthood, preventive work