Knowledge, Attitude and the Role of Peers on the Impact of Drug Abuse on Adolescents in SMK Negeri 1 Tuban

Abstract

In Indonesia UNODC (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime), drug abuse is included in the criteria of extraordinary crime ranking first in ASEAN. This proves that drugs are very detrimental to damaging the next generation of the nation. The age range of adolescents (15-24 years) in 2020, there are 269 million worldwide using 950 types of drugs.  The re-sults of interviews from 20 students there are 15 or 75% still do not know about the impact of drug abuse. The general objective of the study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and role of peers about the impact of drug abuse on adolescents at SMK Negeri 1 Tuban. Research design descriptive. The sampling technic used is Simple Random Sampling. Pop-ulation of class X students was 160. The sample was 114. The variables in this study are knowledge, attitude and role of peers. Data collection using questionnaires processed cod-ing, scoring, tabulating. Univariate research analysis. The results of the study can be seen that all adolescents have good adolescent knowledge, most of the negative attitudes, peers who play a small role. This shows that good knowledge, positive attitudes and the role of peers who support in good things are very important for adolescents to avoid drug abuse. The role of schools is to socialize the impact of drug abuse, life skills development in the educational environment through participatory methods of health education in biology and physics subjects. Soft skills development follows several extracurricular activities such as reading Al-Quran, soc-cer, basketball, volleyball, dance, choir, karate, pencak silat, nature lovers, theater, and band. so that these students can develop soft skills and achieve.