FENOMENA PENYALAHGUNAAN NAPZA DI KALANGAN REMAJA DI KABUPATEN JEMBER DITINJAU DARI TEORI INTERAKSIONISME SIMBOLIK

Abstract

Substance abuse in adolescent is one of the big threat in Indonesia, according to the research from 2008-2013 there are 3.3% of students and university students who abuse substance. The case of substance abuse in Jember regency from 2013-2014, there are 28 adolescents abuse the substance, this case was so dangerous for the future of adolescents. This research design used qualitative design with phenomenon approach and resource triangulation technique. The purpose of this research was to analysis the phenomenon of drugs abuse amongst adolescents based on symbolic interactionism theory in jember regency. The informant got by purposive and obtained 4 informants. Data was obtained by indepth interview from some theme of symbolic interacsionism theory. The informants age are 22-23 years old. They began to abuse some substance in junior high school. Most of the informants use cannabis. Based on the research result showed that most of the adolescents use special words to communicate with others who also abuse substance. They have positive self concept before abuse substance and negative self concept after become substance abuser. Substance abuse can influence the social interaction especially with their friends and society in around them. Most of the informant family’s didn’t know that informants as substance abuser, but in other hand most of their girlfriend known that informants as substance abuser. Based on the research, it is necessary to give information about the dangerous of substance abuse for adolescent by increasing the role of adolescent in PIK adolescent and health school center.