| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 社會工作學系 === 107 === Drug abuse has always been a big issue in Taiwan for a long time. As new psychoactive substance emerges and accesses to drugs become much easier, youth drug abuse problem has become serious than ever. The purpose of this study is to induce the risk factors and protect factors on youth drug abuse, and to discuss the correlation between these two factors. By examining the resilience of the drug-abused individual, I hope to form a strong protection network to help youngsters against drug temptation in the future. Also, I expect that my studies can provide insights to people working in related fields and to legislators. This study utilizes purposive sampling method to select six youngsters, who have stopped drug abuse during the age between15 to 24 (According to the UN definition, youth, age from 15 to 24). We conducted in-depth interviews on the selected candidates during our study.
According to my study, the risk factors contributing to youth drug abuse are: individual factor, relationship with others factor, exterior factor, negative labeling factor. The protect factors contributing to youth drug abuse are: intrinsic protect factor, extrinsic protect factor, significant others factor. The definition of resilience in this study is to produce and maintain a positive adaptation after quitting drugs contributed by the protect factors. In other words, resilience is using the protect factors to help successfully detoxify. Four of those interviewees successfully detoxified, and the other two went back on drugs. By observing the resilience toward drug abuse, we have discovered that there is a spectrum effect, and the risk and protect factors works inversely correlated inside the individual’s ecosystem. When risk factors are stronger than protect factors, youth continue use drugs; when the two factors are balance, youth start to have the idea of stop using it; when protect factors dominates, youth start to have actions to seek detoxification. As long as the protect factors are more than risk factors, the youngsters are able to detoxify.
My suggestion to the practical field: (1)pay attention to the life journey of the drug-abused individual, (2)intensify the protect factors to the drug-abused youth, reduce risk factors to strengthen the youngster’s resilience, (3)form rehabilitation groups, (4)remove negative labeling. My suggestions to the legislative field: (1)reinforce education on drug abuse, (2)increase the fine towards level 3 and 4 drugs, (3)chase down the dark figure of crime by cross checking database between the National Police Agency and the Department of Education, (4) implement the transitional assistance for drug-abused youth.
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