Community Role in the Prevention of Narcotics Abuse Among Teenagers

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.081How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Narcotics Abuse, community role, teenagers

Abstract

Narcotics are substances or drugs derived from plants/non-plants that can cause a decrease in consciousness to eliminate pain and if abused can cause dependence. In general, narcotics abusers are adolescents, they are those who are in the age 17-24 years are in a transition period or in a looking for identity and are unstable/emotional instability. Starting from curiosity then trying until finally addicted, in this phase they will justify any means to get narcotics to commit criminal acts/violations of the law. Therefore, it becomes the joint responsibility of the government, law enforcement and National Narcotics Agency of Indonesia as well as all elements of the community in efforts to prevent narcotics abuse through preventive and repressive efforts by means of punishment and non-punishment as well as medical and social rehabilitation in accordance with Law No. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics. The research method is juridical normative by prioritizing secondary data and presented in a descriptive qualitative manner in the form of description.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sri Wulandari
AU  - Sri Hartati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/20
TI  - Community Role in the Prevention of Narcotics Abuse Among Teenagers
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Law, Economics and Health (ICLEH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 411
EP  - 416
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.081
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200513.081
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