This study had conducted to push our society for getting some proper measures of the anti-drug abuse and adopting this study as a fundamental data for the school health education. Sample subjects were the 3rd grade of high school in Chungnam Province and the number were 1,014. The data had been collected on Dec. 3th-8th, 1990 according to the tool of Institute on Drug Abuse of Korea. And then Frequency and χ²-test were need to analyse of data by SPSS-X program.
The results of this study could be summarized as follows.
1. They had used 14 kinds of drugs : 70.1% of the subjects students used alcohol, 69.2% analgesics, 38.6% cigarette, 15.0% stimulants, 14.7% antitussives, 11.2% antithistamines, 8.9% hypnotics, 7.1% tranquilizers, 4.2% inhalants, 2.3% marijuana, 1.4% hallucinogens, 0.9% cocaine, 0.6% amphetamines, and 0.6% narcotics. The boys´ drug using rate is higher than girls´ except in analgesics and stimulants.
2. With respect to misbehaving, 43.0% of the students said they had pop houses, 42.4% adult video, 17.4% unexcused absence from school, 11.0% dangerous weapon, 9.1% sexual intercourse, 8.0% disappearance from home, 7.5% blackmail, and 6.0% assault. In every kinds of misbehaving, the boys´ misbehaving rate is higher than the girls´
3. Almost every kinds of drugs have the students first used at the age of 15 through 18. And 13.8% of the students smoked every day and 1.7% drank every day.
4. The frequency of the drug using such as cigarette (p<.01), marijuana (p<.05), cocaine (p<.05) and narcotics (p<.05) showed the stastically significant differences according to the religions of the subjects
5. The subjects who has complaints about someone use more drugs than the ones who doesn´t, and who doesn´t have any complaints about five elements have never used drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, narcotics, hallucinogens, and inhalants.
6. The drug using subjects have the more experiences of adult video, pop houses, and unexcused absent from school than the non-drug using ones. It means that the subjects who use drug were apt to do misbehaving more often than the ones who have never used them, and delinquent boys and girls use more drugs.
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