Knowledge Management on Drug Law and Participatory knowledge transfer to Enhance Drug Prevention Effectiveness among Youth Groups in Krasang District, Buriram province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to investigate the causes or reasons of children and young to take the narcotic drugs, to study the process of knowledge management on drug law for youth and to study the prevention guidance of drug abuse among youth from knowledge management. The samples were the first groups were the 400 children and youth aged 15-20 years living in Krasang district, Buriram Province using Simple Sampling and the second group were the 20 teachers by using the Purposive Sampling. The tools for this research were a questionnaire survey, interview and group discussion. The statistics used in this research were percentage, mean and standard deviation. The highest level of risk behavior was drug addiction. And influence from print media. The research result were found that the important things was the risk behavior for taking the drug and the influence from the media, that is, the details to pay attention was the friendship as a friend by doing not care if they was addicted or not, and the pornographic website. The effective knowledge management process was the organizing of the process of youth participation in law education and then exchanging learning. The prevention of narcotics was to raise the awareness of drug addiction and created a slogan at the teenager level to not go astray.