The abuse of any form of illicit substance is referred as drug abuse. Excessive use of addictive (legal or illegal) substances is defined as utilizing them to the point that their effects become hazardous to the user's health. As the impact of drug abuse are disastrous to individuals and societies it is important to find what leads to it and how it can be prevented. This study focuses on the causes behind drug abuse and prevention strategies. The target group is female adolescents as most of the time target population in earlier research has been generalised to age or gender ignored women or age-specific women conditions. The interviews have been conducted with social workers in Maryland to investigate about the cause and prevention strategies of drug abuse regarding female adolescents. Maryland has been selected as it is one of the states with rate of drug abuse. The results have concluded causes as dysfunctional families, peer pressure, availability of drugs, and social media. Prevention strategies that have been concluded are family-based prevention strategies, community-based prevention, school-based prevention and cognitive behavioural therapy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hig-39385 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Ali, Hasnain, Okpala, Johvianney |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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