Abstract
The purpose of this study is to affect health improvement of adolescent, to understand behavioral causes
follow adolescent's drug abuse, to understand recovery and rehabilitaton process of adolescent drug abuser.
The data are collected through open questionnaire and interview of 25 adolescents from the experienced drug
abuse 16 students(male 8, female 8) in two vocational high schools and admissing adolescents 9 person in
Alcohol-Drug Addiction Care Centre in Seoul from June 28th to August 31st, 1994. The collected data are
arranged and explained through categorizing method stated contents about motives, causes, experiences and
effected behaviors for using the drugs of drug abuser adolescents.
DRUG USING MOTIVATION
They are almost first son and daughter in their family. In their conversation person, male converses to
their mother well, but female does not converse to their parents include family. Both groups respond
positively to companionship and attitude to other, but negatively to self-confidence and actualizing attitude.
They hope always peace of family and want to do their best for their life.
In school group, hard and difficult things are school life and family problems, also using the drugs for
resolving the them. About drug using behaviors, male responds to bad habbit and shamfull, but female is
unconcerned with drug using attitude. The first background of drug using, male gets to use because of
curiosity and to be induced from friends or seniors, but female gets to use for feminine beauty(thin body) and
escape from reality. Used the drugs, male uses frequently Bond, Butane-Gas among inhalation materials and also
marijuana, but female uses various diuretics. The times of drug using, both groups repond to use during the
chaging of emotion or filling with stress. The place of drug using, both groups take drugs in vacant houses or in the
mountain. The frequency of drug using, they use almost once in a day and they use mostly alone or drug user in
friends. Experienced mental changing after drug using, which is fantasy, ecstasy, anxiety and suicidal feeling, and
experienced physical changing after drug using, which is elevating sense, headach, abdominal pain, dyspnea and
chaging of skin colour and reddish. They coincide with inconvenience feeling due to drug using.
RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION PROCESS OF DRUG USING ADOLESCENTS
The reason for reforming drug using behavior and attitude, both groups respond to reforming for oneself
and social life. The difficult things during the stop to using drugs, all of them responed to family problems,
friends problems and temptation and impulse. As for stop to using drug, they need good advise, understandable
attitude and family love. But they do not need to be stigmatized, scolding, over protect and ridicule of friends.
Also they entreat continuous understanding, advise, concern and the method for resolving stress. For the friends
to want to use the drug, they will talk about the stories of their personal experiences and for the friends to
stop to using the drug, they will consider for them how to stop.
From the theses results, drug users understand personal problems due to drug using, and consider about
why to stop and how to stop. Also drug users need to resolve the family problems, personal problems, stress
and temptations or impulses. Accordingly this paper suggests that drug users in adolescents need
understandable and acceptable atitudes, loving and tenderness, continuous advice and concern, and hopes for
life.