Unmasking the reality behind the drug abusers the lived experience of drug abusers.

Date of Completion

2001

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Keywords

Drug Users

Abstract

The phenomenological approach in qualitative research was applied in the study. Purposive sampling was used to choose the key informants. Every respondent was personally interviewed by the researchers. Drug addiction may occur to anybody with wealthy or poor status. It doesn’t matter who the person is. What matters is that a person should have good problems solving skills or coping mechanism and should have strong control over their earthly cravings. The lived experience of the drug addict may vary depending in what caused such, like curiosity, family problem, peer pressure and environmental factors. These drug addicts are also human who are able to commit mistakes too. But still what happens to the addicted person would still be based on his will, which means that drug addiction is still left an open option for anybody even after going through the course of treatment in the rehabilitation center. Drug addiction is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. All the presented lifestyle of the respondents does not mean to generalize that all in the same situation ends up abusing drugs. Drug addiction is not an illness, for it just one decision a person thought of regardless of the consequence it may present in the near future.

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Call Number: TH NM 01 33

Location: Research Commons

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