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KMID : 0377619950600070597
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1995 Volume.60 No. 7 p.597 ~ p.614
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A Survey of Adolescent´s Drug Abuse
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Abstract
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This study was designed to investigate the situation of adolescent´s drug abuse in Chong Ju and to compare it with that of other areas and to understand all variables related to drug abuse in order to have a preventive method.
The subjects for its study were students from the first grade of middle school, 12 years, to the third grade of high school, twenty years, who attended at school.
The subjects were chosen among sit middle and high schools at random. All the subjects were 1726, that is, 476 boys and 300 girls of middle school, and 560 boys and 300 girls of high school.
The data were collected during the period from December 1, 1994. December 20, 1994. The questionnaire developed by Kim(1991) to survey adolescent drug use was used. The data was analyzed using description statistics, χ-squre with the SPSS program.
The conclusion of this study is as follows.
1) Viewing from the rate of the accumulated distribution ; the highest, analgestic 68.1 %, stimulant 7.1, antihistaminic 2.6 %, hallucinogen 2.3 %.
2) Smoking experience 31.4 % is higher than 25.5 % in Seoul but alcohol drinking 58.6 % is lower than 63.7 % in Seoul.
3) The transitional analysis compared with Kim etc.(1993) ; the use of alcohol reduced from 63.7 % to 58.6 %, analgesic from 154.3 % to 68.1 %, the use of antihistaminic, narcotic, stimulant, and hallucinogen increased a little.
4) Motive for drug use; the highest was peace seeking type 37.4 %, and the next was avoidance of sleep 21.4 %. It is shown that the drug abuse was related to the stress from their grade and entrance because the use of narcotic is 79.8 % in order not to sleep.
5) Places of drug purchase ; The most frequent was drug store 89.9 % and 81.2 % of the respondents answered that drug purchase was very easy and 85.1 % answered that drug use was done mainly at home or schools, reading room or inn etc.
6) The distribution of analgesic use; boy students 62.19 % is higher than girl students 37.1 %. The distribution of narcotic; boy students 76.9 % is much higher than girl students 23.1%.
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