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The actual condition of drug abuse by some Juveniles in our country and effects of some elements on their drug abusing were observed providing basic materials for health education to juveniles to contribute to the health improvement of them and the reduction of the harmfulness of drug abuse. 1035 third school year students of some senior high schools in Seoul were subjected to the questionnaire survey. The results could be summarized as follows: 1. Among the twelve kinds of drug involved in the study, alcohol (72.0％), cigarette (44.2％), stimulants (23.9％), analgesics (7.9％) appeard abused in the order named. 2. As for the motives of using antitussives, 30.1％ of students answered because of curiosity, then 28.8％, in order to get a calm condition, and then 16.4％, to get along with friends. 3. As the result from seeing how much each drug abuser is contact with his family, frends, school, social surroundings and himself, every abuser appeared having higher degree of discontentment with family, school, society and himself excepting friends. 4. And when analyzed the relationship between their misconducting and drug-abusing, a close relationship was shown: mere abusers among misconduct-experienced students, and more misconduct-experienced students among abusers
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