User:Raththinde Somananda

Abstract

An Investigative Study on the Psychosocial Factors of Drug Addiction of School

Children in their adolescent (Based on a selected rehabilitation center)

The basic concepts of society and the individual can be pointed out as essential

factors that are intertwined from the very beginning of civilization. Individual

evolution and social development can be shown out as two main factors that follow

the same line. Because of the superior intelligence of mind, the man has an ability of

reaching unbelievable goals and objectives. The attitudinal decline of a man in the

society in which physical development has increased rapidly can be fully understood

by examining the respective social strata. The degeneration of the field of economy,

education, culture and religion as well as a country and a nation can be seen today.

Drug addiction can be seen as one of the leading causes of degeneration in a person

from the lower society to the upper society. The solutions were explored under the

title of “an investigative study of psychosocial factors of drug addiction of school

children who in their adolescent.” The characteristics of drug addicted young school

children, the value and the importance of adolescence of a child, the main concept of

addiction, interpretation of drugs, the data on depressive and lethal types of narcotics,

the psychological and social factors influencing children’s drug addiction, were

discussed in this research. A single case study was done selecting 21 children receiving

residential treatment in rehabilitation center at Manpitiya in Kandy district. The

information was collected through a questionnaire and interviews. The suggestions

were made to show the dire consequences of drug addiction and importance of

brighten the future of children.

Key words:

Adolescence,

Schoolboy,

Drugs,

Addiction,

Psychological Factors,

Sociological Factors,