Publication: Drug Abuse Awareness Among Adolescent Of Low Social Economic Status
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2015
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This study investigating the “Drug Abuse awareness among Adolescent of low social economic
status”. The objective of this study is to measure the awareness of the use of drug substances
and to measures the stress among the adolescents in low social economic status. The sample
consisted of 91 respondents who have low social economic status. During survey there were two
instruments were undertaken Alcohol and other drug abuse (AOD) and Depression anxiety
stress scale (DASS) to measure the perception of the participants on the drug abuse and stress
management. The findings indicates that the drug abuses among adolescent was reflection from
the influential of low social economic status problem that make the adolescent addicted
seriously to drug abuse it and they expressed that “it’s hard to relief from it”.
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Drug Abuse, Drug addiction