Junior High School Student’s Parents Knowledge about Narcotics, Alcohol and Addictives in Depok 2002

Abstract

At present drug abuse is a major issue among teenagers/students. It does not only involve teenagers/students it selves, but also their families, the neighborhood, the school environment, law enforcement as main factors as well as anticipators. Parents should have knowledge about drug abuse among family members. Therefore the aim of this study is to obtain information of the junior-high school parents on knowledge about drugs, alcohol and addictives i.e. type of drugs, appearance of drugs, the way using drugs and the physical individual characteristics of drug users. The study was conducted in selected schools of Depok, West Java. The analytic descriptive cross-sectional method was used to measure the level of knowledge of the parents. The level of knowledge of the parents on alcoholic beverages, sedative group such as diazepam (BK tablet), nitrazepam (mogadon) and flunitrazepam (rohypnol), cannabis (ganja / marijuana), opiate (heroin / putaw), amphetamine (shabu-shabu, ecstacy) and cocaine. The parents did know at the most, two kinds of drug among six. Among them 26.5% did not know about alcoholic beverages and 49.6% about sedative group. Of the parents 44.4%, 62.4%, 57.3%, 75.2% did not know about the different appearances of cannabis, opiate, amphetamine and cocaine type respectively. A total of 13.1% , 57.3%, 57.6%, 44.4%, 62.6%, 68.7% and 78.8% did not know how to use alcoholic beverages, sedative group, cannabis, opiate, amphetamine and cocaine Most parents did not know well the physical, individual characteristics of drug users. Information about drugs was obtained from magazine, newspaper or television, followed by counseling and seminars. Schools should cooperate with parents to overcome the problem of NAZA and knowledge of parents should be improved through multimedia.